Anne Borsay, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Anne Borsay

British medical historian

Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1954

Date of Death: 25-Aug-2014

Profession: medical historian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Anne Borsay

  • Anne Borsay (20 October 1954 – 25 August 2014) was a medical historian.
  • She was appointed as the first Chair of Medical Humanities at Swansea University in 2003, a position she held until her death in 2014.
  • Her academic work explored the history of medical institutions and, later, the role of disabled people in the coal industry in south Wales.Borsay was described by a colleague as 'a pioneer of disability history, contributing a huge wealth of ideas and studies to what is now a flourishing field of history.
  • Her work looked at changes in social, cultural and political attitudes towards disability, bringing out the importance of recording the often-ignored place of disabled people within history.'.

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