Paul Julian Weindling (born July 1953) is

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research professor in the

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. He joined Oxford Brookes University in 1998 as Research Professor in the History of Medicine. From 1978 until 1998 he was at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. Following graduation from the University of Oxford, he completed an MA and PhD at University College London. His father Emmerich Weindling was one of the forty Austrians allowed to study

dental surgery Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth. It consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions o ...

in Britain in 1939, and had requalified at

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. His mother Erica (née Gutmann) had come to Britain age 17 in 1939 on a

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, staying in

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with A.V.Hill. She too became a dentist. They became British citizens in 1949 and made their home in Highgate. Paul Weindling was educated at

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where Hill had been a Governor. In 2014 he became a member of the

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Selected publications

*Weindling P, ''Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust'', Bloomsbury Academic (2014) *Weindling P, Ed., ''The Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000'', Routledge (2014) *Marks S, Weindling P, Wintour L, ''In defence of learning: the plight, persecution, and placement of academic refugees, 1933-1980s'' (Proceedings of the British Academy: 169),

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(2011) *Weindling P, ''John W. Thompson, psychiatrist in the shadow of the holocaust'',

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(2010)

References

1953 births Academics of Oxford Brookes University Living people People educated at Highgate School Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of University College London Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina {{UK-academic-stub