- B.A., University of Florida (1992), magna cum laude
- Ph.D., Cambridge University (1995)
- Assistant Professor, Umea University, Sweden (1995-6)
- Assistant Professor, University College, London/Wellcome Center for the History of Medicine (1996-7)
- Wellcome Fellow, Cambridge University (1997-8)
- Assistant Professor, University of East Anglia, Norwich (1998-2001)
- Assistant Professor, Birkbeck College, University of London (2001-2002)
- Associate Adjunct Professor, UCSF (2002-2006)
- Professor, UCSF (2006- )
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Dr. Dolan has taught a wide range of courses providing historical perspectives on: biology and evolutionary thought, environmentalism, disease classification, and doctor-patient relationships, as well as general survey courses on early-modern and modern European social history.
He has researched and published numerous articles on topics in the history of science, technology and medicine including: the history of scientific publishing, illustration and teaching; the history of chemistry and scientific instrumentation; and the relations between environmental and occupational health debates. He has mainly concentrated on case studies in Britain, France, and Sweden. Most recently he has written on computer-aided diagnosis and the impact of new imaging technologies on the radiology profession in late 20th-century medical practice.
Dr. Dolan is the author of three monographs which address broader themes in social history. Exploring European Frontiers: British Travelers in the Age of Enlightenment (Macmillan, 2000) examines eighteenth-century British perspectives on the 'civilizing process' across Europe and the Levant as observed and reported on by travelers; Ladies of the Grand Tour (HarperCollins, 2001) brought to light little-known debates on the intellectual, emotional, and social benefits of travel for eighteenth-century women of means; Wedgwood: The First Tycoon (New York: Viking, 2004; published in the U.K. as Josiah Wedgwood: Entrepreneur to the Enlightenment London: HarperCollins, 2004 ) is a biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the famous pottery, which tells the story of a sickly child's rise to international fame set within the context of eighteenth-century scientific, industrial and political revolutions and the origins of global commerce.
He has also published three edited books in the history of science and medicine. Science Unbound: Geography, Space and Discipline (Umea, 1998), discusses evolving disciplinary structures in early scientific practices and networks of communication; Malthus, Medicine and Morality: Malthusianism after 1798 (Rodopi, 2000), examines 19th and 20th-century debates on population health, birth control, and social Darwinism; and most recently Literature and Science: Chemistry, 1650-1850 (Pickering and Chatto, 2004), an annotated volume of facsimile reprints of tracts of and about chemical ideas.
Presently, Dr. Dolan is finishing a social history of technology and the development of the entertainment industry in early 20th-century America, and is preparing a monograph on how medical technologies have affected medical skills and clinical practices.
He was recently Chair of the History of Science Society's Committee on Education and is the UCSF member of the advisory committee for the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). He is also U.S. editor of Social History of Medicine (with U.K.-based co-editor Prof. Bill Luckin).
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