Waltraud Ernst

Waltraud Ernst (born 1955) is a German professor of the history of medicine at Oxford Brookes University.[1] She is a specialist in the history of psychiatry.

She attended the University of Konstanz and obtained her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1987 for a dissertation on psychiatry and mental illness in South Asia, c. 1780 – 1858.

Selected publications
  • Race, Science and Medicine, 1700–1960. Routledge, New York, 1999. (Edited with Bernard Harris) ISBN 0415181526
  • Plural Medicine, Tradition and modernity, 1800–2000. Routledge, London, 2002. (Editor)[2] ISBN 0415231221
  • Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and cultural histories of norms and normativity. Routledge, London, 2006. ISBN 9780415368438
  • Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58. Anthem Press, London, 2010. (Anthem South Asian Studies) ISBN 978-1843318682
  • Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry: The Development of an Indian Mental Hospital in British India, c. 1925 – 1940. Anthem Press, London, 2013.[3][4] ISBN 978 0 85728 019 0
  • Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750–2015. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2016. (Editor)[5] ISBN 9780719097690
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References
  1. "Academic staff - Oxford Brookes University". brookes.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  2. Dow, Derek A. (2004). "Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Plural medicine, tradition and modernity, 1800–2000, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 2002, pp. xiii, 253, £60.00 (hardback 0-415-23122-1)". Medical History. 48 (1): 134–136. doi:10.1017/S0025727300007213.
  3. "Anthem Press - Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry". Anthempress.com. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  4. Harding, C. (4 July 2014). "Waltraud Ernst, Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry: The Development of an Indian Mental Hospital in British India, c. 1925-1940". Social History of Medicine. 27 (4): 832–833. doi:10.1093/shm/hku051. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  5. Roberts-Pedersen, Elizabeth (15 May 2017). "Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750–2015". Social History of Medicine. 30 (4): 835–837. doi:10.1093/shm/hkx042. Retrieved 14 August 2018.



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