Helen studied human sciences (BSc) and the history of medicine (MSc & PhD) at University College London and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, before lecturing in medical history at the University of Liverpool. Since then she has worked as a freelance writer, editor and lecturer based in Suffolk.
Helen is the author (Helen Power) of Tropical medicine in the 20th Century (1998), co-editor with William Bynum of the award winning reference book about dead doctors, all times, all places Dictionary of Medical Biography, 5 vols. (2007) a fantastic compendium about doctors, all times, all places . Together they also co-edited the OUP Biographies of Disease series, which will include the history of tuberculosis provisionally titled Spitting Blood: A history of tuberculosis (gory but sadly all too accurate) to be published later this year.
The highlight of 2011 was their Great Discoveries in Medicine (published by Thames and Hudson) which they edited with the help of some really talented authors around the world including the Nobel Prize winner Barry Marshall. The pictures are stunning too from medieval manuscripts to the latest cutting edge images of our bodies and the germs that invade them. They are talking at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival and the Cambridge Science Festival both of which take place in March.
Helen reviews regularly for JAMA and the BMJ.
Bill and Helen gave a series of lectures for Jon Baines Tours history of medicine cruises in the Black Sea (2009) and the Eastern Mediterranean (2010).
They also developed the short online course, History of Medicine for Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, which she tutors
www.conted.ox.ac.ukIn their spare time, when they have any, they both love to spend quality time at their beautiful home and work in their gardens which look out over some wonderful scenery…It was a real joy spending the morning with them both!
I’m really looking forwards to seeing my images on both the cover of their books and on their website and possibly on posters too for the Literary Festival…exciting times for us both!!
Elms Barn at Toft Monks…It was a fantastic day with all their friends and family around them to brighten up what was to turn out to be a rather wet and windy afternoon…but that never dampened their laughter!
then she left, then I left and then….out of the blue I had an email asking if I was available to photograph her wedding…BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOO horror of horrors….I was already booked!!!
