Dr Roderick Bailey

Research Fellow
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
01865 (2)74609
roderick.bailey@history.ox.ac.uk

I specialise in the history of medicine and have particular research interests in the study of infectious disease responses, global health, mental health, and medicine’s relationship to war and conflict. I am currently a Research Fellow at Oxford’s Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and a Departmental Lecturer in History of Medicine at the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.  

Away from academia, I have worked extensively in post-conflict countries for the European Union and OSCE as an official observer of international elections. 

 

Research Interests

My current research explores international responses to epidemic disease in Italy and Germany in the Second World War, Palestine in 1948 and Korea in 1951, looking especially at issues of vector control and the movement and management of human populations. With support from Oxford’s Fell Fund, I am also researching aspects of international practices of cultural heritage protection in Greece and Italy at the end of the Second World War. 

 

Twitter: @roderick_bailey

Teaching

I currently teach:

Masters

  • Methods and Themes in the History of Medicine
  • Medicine and Modern Warfare

  • From Colonial Medicine to Global Health

Undergraduates

  • Medicine, Empire and Improvement

I would like to hear from potential Masters and DPhil students with interests in the Second World War, intelligence, resistance, and the study of modern war and medicine.

Publications