Bruce Charlton
Bruce G. Charlton is a British medical doctor and Visiting Professor of Theoretical Medicine at the University of Buckingham.[1] Since 2001, he has been Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry at Newcastle University.[2] Charlton was editor of Medical Hypotheses from 2003 to 2010.
Biography
Charlton graduated with honours from the Newcastle Medical School in Newcastle upon Tyne, took a doctorate at the Medical Research Council Neuroendocrinology group, and did postgraduate training in psychiatry and public health. He has held university lectureships in physiology, anatomy, epidemiology, and psychology; and holds a Master's degree in English Literature from Durham University in North East England.[3]
From 2003 to 2010, Charlton was the solo-editor of the journal Medical Hypotheses, published by Elsevier.[4]
Publications
Charlton has published a number of books, and maintains various blogs.[5]
- with RS Downie, The making of a doctor: medical education in theory and practice (1993)
- Psychiatry and the Human Condition (2000; online copy)
- with Peter Andras, The Modernization Imperative (2003; online copy)
- Thought Prison: the fundamental nature of political correctness (2011; online copy)
- Not even trying: the corruption of real science (2012; online copy)
- Addicted to Distraction: Psychological consequences of the modern Mass Media (2014; online copy)
- with Edward Dutton, The Genius Famine: why we need geniuses, why they're dying out, and why we must rescue them 2016; online excerpts)
See also
References
- ↑ [ NY Times; "Professor Bruce Charlton". University of Buckingham.
- ↑ "Dr. Bruce Charlton". Newcastle University. BBC. Sky News Scotsman.
- ↑ http://www.madinamerica.com/author/bcharlton/
- ↑ Mad In America Bruce Charlton (11 May 2010). "RIP Medical Hypotheses". medicalhypotheses.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ↑ Blogger.com profile; some of the "blogs" listed are in fact single books or essays.