Mitchell L. Hammond, University of Victoria
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Victoria, British Columbia
mlewham@uvic.ca
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(250) 721-7287
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Mitchell Hammond has been an assistant professor in the History Department since 2005. His scholarship ranges widely over the history of medicine and disease from the Renaissance to the modern era. He is the author of Epidemics and the Modern World (University of Toronto Press, 2020) and articles...
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Bio/Research
Mitchell Hammond has been an assistant professor in the History Department since 2005. His scholarship ranges widely over the history of medicine and disease from the Renaissance to the modern era. He is the author of Epidemics and the Modern World (University of Toronto Press, 2020) and articles pertaining to the European social history of medicine. Dr. Hammond’s archival research program focuses on German cities in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Topics that he has explored include the relationship of medicine and religious reform; the development of medical poor relief; and the evolving role of medical practitioners in urban life. He is currently at work on a survey of the modern history of medicine that is under contract with the University of Toronto Press.
Dr. Hammond’s courses reflect his teaching interest in numerous aspects of early modern culture, including the exchange between European and American peoples in the Atlantic world and the religious upheavals in Europe during the sixteenth century.
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Dr. Hammond’s courses reflect his teaching interest in numerous aspects of early modern culture, including the exchange between European and American peoples in the Atlantic world and the religious upheavals in Europe during the sixteenth century.
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