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Magnus Vollset

Associate Professor, history of medicine, history of science
Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care
  • History of health and medicine
  • History of leprosy
  • History of international health
  • Transnational history
  • History of meteorology
  • History of geophysics
  • History of science

Teaching portfolio: https://vollset.w.uib.no/ 

Academic article
  • Show author(s) 2015. Climate in meteorology, meteorology in climate studies . History of meteorology. iv-v.
  • Show author(s) 2015. Asking too much? Postwar climate research in Norway, 1947-1961. History of meteorology. 83-97.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) 2020. Pandemier og smittevern gjennom tidene.
  • Show author(s) 2020. Pandemier og smittevern gjennom historien: 400 år på 40 minutter.
Book review
  • Show author(s) 2020. Jan Eyvind Myhre & Kim Helsvig (red.): Making a modern university. The University of Oslo 1811-2018. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 167-168.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Show author(s) 2021. 'Our loathsome ancestors’ Reinventing medieval leprosy for the modern world, 1850–1950. Manchester University Press.
  • Show author(s) 2021. 'Our loathsome ancestors': reinventing medieval leprosy for the modern world, 1850-1950 (Kathleen Vongsathorn and Magnus Vollset, Chapter 12 in: Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages. From England to the Mediterranean, MUP) . Manchester University Press.
Popular scientific article
  • Show author(s) 2017. Fra Vøringen til Universitas Bergensis. Årbok - Norges Tekniske Vitenskapsakademi (NTVA). 74-78.
  • Show author(s) 2016. Leprosy in India: Can leprosy be cured? U. S. National Library of Medicine website.
  • Show author(s) 2009. Spedalskheten i Norge. Fortid. 6-9.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

  • A scientific history of the University of Bergen (2018-2021)
Fields of competence 
History of meteorology
History of science
Medical History