Background
Mary Dobson was born on December 27, 1954, in Surrey, the United Kingdom.
University od Oxford, OX1 2JD, Oxford, United Kingdom
Dobson received a bachelor's degree in geography from the University of Oxford in 1976, a master's degree in 1980, and a Ph.D. in 1982.
University od Oxford, OX1 2JD, Oxford, United Kingdom
Dobson received a bachelor's degree in geography from the University of Oxford in 1976, a master's degree in 1980, and a Ph.D. in 1982.
(The compelling and sometimes frightening stories of 30 de...)
The compelling and sometimes frightening stories of 30 deadly diseases and of humanity's efforts to combat them.
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2007
(In The Story of Medicine, esteemed medical historian and ...)
In The Story of Medicine, esteemed medical historian and author Mary Dobson charts the ways in which we have fought with disease and injury over several millennia - from the ‘humors’ of Hippocrates to Edward Jenner and the eradication of smallpox; from Florence Nightingale’s nursing reforms to Crick and Watson’s DNA chain.
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2013
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2013
(Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the h...)
Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters combined.
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2014
Mary Dobson was born on December 27, 1954, in Surrey, the United Kingdom.
Dobson received a bachelor's degree in geography from the University of Oxford in 1976, a master's degree in 1980, and a Ph.D. in 1982.
Mary Dobson is a historian of disease at Oxford University in England. She is also the author of ten books for children that bring some of the interesting or gruesome aspects of ancient (and not-so-ancient) history to life for young readers. In Victorian Vapours, Greek Grime, Vile Vikings, and her other books for children, Dobson presents a peculiarly intimate glimpse of an era through descriptions of how people lived and died during that time, accompanied by scratch-and-sniff panels that approximate the smells of these eras. “The books... are littered with fascinating historical facts,” maintained Andrew Kidd in Books for Keeps, citing the vats of urine in which the Romans laundered their clothing, and the concoction of apples and puppy fat favored by Queen Elizabeth I for her hair. In Reeking Royals, Dobson presents the scent of rotting corpses alongside the aroma of spices imported from the Holy Land in order to give a uniquely confrontational sense of the medieval era. Because of the scratch-and-sniff panels really do smell, a Publishers Weekly reviewer advised readers to “keep these in a drawer or other enclosed place.” Todd Morning, writing in School Library Journal, noted that while the series does not attempt to give an in-depth portrait of the societies it presents, it nonetheless “may give students enough of a whiff to want to read further.”
Dobson is the contributor to books, including A Chronology of Epidemic Disease and Mortality in Southeast England, 1600-1800, Historical Geography Research Group, 1987; A Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century World History, Blackwell, 1994; Readers Guide to the History of Science, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996; The Economy of Kent, 1640-1914, Boydell Press and Kent County Council, 1996; Western Medicine: An Illustrated History, Oxford University Press, 1997; Environmental Change and Human Occupation in a Coastal Lowland, Oxbow Books, 1998; and The Malaria Challenge after One Hundred Years of Malariology, Accademia Nationale dei Lincei, 1999. Contributor to journals, including Journal of Historical Geography, Geographical Magazine, Continuity and Change, Society History of Medicine, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Wellcome Trust Review, Health Transition Review, Parassitologia, British Medical Journal, Transactions of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and East African Medical Journal.
(In The Story of Medicine, esteemed medical historian and ...)
2013(Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the h...)
2014(The compelling and sometimes frightening stories of 30 de...)
2007Mary is married to Christopher Dobson, who is a professor of chemistry, since September 3, 1977. They have two children together. Their sons' names are Richard and William.
