Dr. Thomas Schlich
Faculty
Social Studies of Medicine
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Thomas Schlich is James McGill Professor in History of Medicine at the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. After working as a physician at the University Hospital in Marburg, Germany, he pursued his historical interests in different research and teaching positions in Cambridge, England, Stuttgart, Germany, and Freiburg, Germany. He held a Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Council (DFG) (2000-2002) and a Canada Research Chair (2002-2012).
Research Interest
History of modern medicine and science (18th-21st centuries), medicine and technology, surgery, body history.
Publications
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2002 Surgery, Science and Industry: A Revolution in Fracture Care, 1950s-1990s, Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave (=Series Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History).
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1998 Die Erfindung der Organtransplantation: Erfolg und Scheitern des chirurgischen Organersatzes (1880-1930), Frankfurt on the Main: Campus, 385 pp.
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2010 The Origins of Organ Transplantation: Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880s-1930s, Rochester, NY: The University of Rochester Press 2010 (=Series Rochester Studies in Medical History) (revised and translated version of Die Erfindung der Organtransplantation).
