Professor, Cotton-Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine
george.weisz [at] mcgill.ca听触听514-398-6274聽| 3647 Peel, room 201聽聽
George Weisz received a PhD in History from Stony Brook University and in Sociology from the University of Paris 5 (Descartes). He has written four books, edited five others and published numerous historical articles on such varied subjects as mineral waters, national differences in gynecological practices, clinical practice guidelines, and medical quantification. He has been a Visiting Professor at the 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), the Universit茅 de Paris 1 (Sorbonne), and INSERM (Paris).
Research Interests:
He is interested in healthcare in Europe and North America between the 19th and 21st centuries and is currently working on the history of institutions of global health, of national and international efforts to organize primary care, the sciences of sexuality, and trends in medical education.
Selected Publications:
Minerva 63(2025).听
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(With Jonathan Harper), ,鈥� Health Research Policy and Systems, (2024) 22:16.听 hpsr_2024-_final_.pdf
"," 聽Globalization and Health聽17,听96 (2021).听
鈥�Medical Authority,鈥� in A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age, Ed. Todd Meyers, London: Bloomsbury Academic 2020 forthcoming.
George Weisz, 鈥�Leprosy: An Early Exemplar of the Transformation of 20th Century American Medicine鈥�, American Journal of Public Health 108, no. 2 (February 1, 2018): pp. 160-161.