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Prof. Dr. Alison M. Downham Moore

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Western Sydney University, Australia
History of Medicine

External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
January – April 2020

E-Mail: alison.moore@westernsydney.edu.au

Last Update: 31.08.2020

Curriculum Vitae

Alison M. Downham Moore is a conceptual and intellectual historian of medicine. She is Associate Professor of modern European history at Western Sydney University, Australia where she teaches historical methodology, history of sexuality and supervises doctoral and masters candidates on a broad range of historical topics. She has published widely on the history of psychiatry and on the long history of sexuality and medicine. She also writes about historical theory, genocide historiographic debates, and the history of European medical ideas about digestion. In recent years she has developed her training in biomedical sciences with a view to enriching her expertise in histories of biology, health, nutrition and disease. Her current research focuses on the history of medical ideas about menopause, andropause and ageing sexuality, and on the development of integrative humanistic and scientific collaborations relating to questions of ageing, longevity, diet and intestinal health.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project