Waltraud Ernst

Waltraud Ernst is a German professor of the history of medicine at Oxford Brookes University. She is a specialist in the history of psychiatry.
She attended the University of Konstanz and obtained her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1987 for a dissertation on psychiatry and mental illness in South Asia, c. 1780 – 1858.

Selected publications

Race, Science and Medicine, 1700–1960. Routledge, New York, 1999. Plural Medicine, Tradition and modernity, 1800–2000. Routledge, London, 2002. Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and cultural histories of norms and normativity. Routledge, London, 2006. Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58. Anthem Press, London, 2010. Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry: The Development of an Indian Mental Hospital in British India, c. 1925 – 1940. Anthem Press, London, 2013. Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750–2015. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2016.