About the Professor

A description of the professor Chris Hamlin.

Christopher Hamlin

Professor Chris Hamlin, Ph.D.

Professor of History

Department of History
Program in Science, Technology, and Values
Program in History and Philosophy of Science

University of Notre Dame

 

Image courtesy of Chris Hamlin

 

Chris Hamlin is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.  Trained as an historian of science, Dr. Hamlin has concentrated his work on the history of public health.  He is author of A Science of Impurity (1990), dealing with the history of concepts of water quality, and Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick (1998), dealing with the emergence of modern public health.

Citation: Hamlin, C. (2008, October 10). About the Professor. Retrieved February 12, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/history/medicine-and-public-health-in-american-history/about-the-professor-1.
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