Professor Dena Goodman

I am writing to add my voice to those of scholars from around the globe who are stunned at the prospect of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine being shut down. Thanks in large part to the scholarship produced by Wellcome Centre scholars, the history of medicine is now integral to our understanding of cultural, intellectual, social, and political history. It is centres such as this one that have made the UK a beacon for historians everywhere. It is unbelievable that anyone would want to give up the leadership role that the Wellcome Centre has attained.

Dena Goodman
Lila Miller Collegiate Professor of History and Women's Studies
University of Michigan

Co-Director, Encyclopedia of Diderot and D'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/