Nicholas Binney

About

Nicholas Roy Binney is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. His work focuses on using integrated history and philosophy of medicine to understand and address problems that arise in medical practice. Originally trained as a veterinary surgeon (Royal Veterinary College, London), he was awarded scholarships to study the history of science, medicine and technology (University College London and Imperial College London), before doing his doctoral work in the philosophy of medicine (University of Exeter).

Research areas

Integrated history and philosophy for medicine
History and philosophy of medical test evaluation
Historical development of knowledge of diseases, such as heart failure, osteoporosis, thyroid cancer, shaken baby syndrome and diabetes
Pragmatic concepts of disease
Philosophy of diagnosis and medicine
Relativism in philosophy of science