Anthony Robert Rees, educated at the University of Oxford (MSc, MA, DPhil), has had a distinguished academic and research career spanning over 30 years in receptor biology and molecular immunology. He served as a Lecturer in Molecular Biophysics at Oxford (1980-90) before becoming Professor of Biochemistry and Head of the School of Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Bath (1990-97). He was honored with an Emeritus Professorship in 2003 and a Doctor of Science Honoris Causa in 2009 by the University of Bath. Rees co-founded the Oxford University spin-out, Oxford Molecular plc, in 1989, which floated on the LSE in 1994. He held senior executive roles in French and Swedish biotech companies and was a founding board member of the Austrian antibody biotech company F-star. An expert in antibody repertoire theory, he is a consultant in immunology and a member of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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• 1. The origins of medical theory and practice2. A new disease, syphilis, arrives in Europe and with it new medical voices3. Smallpox: Origins and remedies4. A revolutionary solution to smallpox arrives…but not without opposition5. Scientific skepticism in the 19th & 20th centuries: Not new but more divisive6. Genes and heredity7. The staccato discovery of penicillin8. Trials and tragedies…the thalidomide story9. Fusion of a different kind: The antibody revolution10. A different ‘helix’ story: Stomach ulcers caused by bacteria?11. Anti-vaccinationism and hesitancy in the modern era12. Lessons from twenty-five millennia of medical science orthodoxy

Anthony Robert Rees, educated at the University of Oxford (MSc, MA, DPhil), has had a distinguished academic and research career spanning over 30 years in receptor biology and molecular immunology. He served as a Lecturer in Molecular Biophysics at Oxford (1980-90) before becoming Professor of Biochemistry and Head of the School of Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Bath (1990-97). He was honored with an Emeritus Professorship in 2003 and a Doctor of Science Honoris Causa in 2009 by the University of Bath. Rees co-founded the Oxford University spin-out, Oxford Molecular plc, in 1989, which floated on the LSE in 1994. He held senior executive roles in French and Swedish biotech companies and was a founding board member of the Austrian antibody biotech company F-star. An expert in antibody repertoire theory, he is a consultant in immunology and a member of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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• 1. The origins of medical theory and practice2. A new disease, syphilis, arrives in Europe and with it new medical voices3. Smallpox: Origins and remedies4. A revolutionary solution to smallpox arrives…but not without opposition5. Scientific skepticism in the 19th & 20th centuries: Not new but more divisive6. Genes and heredity7. The staccato discovery of penicillin8. Trials and tragedies…the thalidomide story9. Fusion of a different kind: The antibody revolution10. A different ‘helix’ story: Stomach ulcers caused by bacteria?11. Anti-vaccinationism and hesitancy in the modern era12. Lessons from twenty-five millennia of medical science orthodoxy

Anthony Robert Rees, educated at the University of Oxford (MSc, MA, DPhil), has had a distinguished academic and research career spanning over 30 years in receptor biology and molecular immunology. He served as a Lecturer in Molecular Biophysics at Oxford (1980-90) before becoming Professor of Biochemistry and Head of the School of Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Bath (1990-97). He was honored with an Emeritus Professorship in 2003 and a Doctor of Science Honoris Causa in 2009 by the University of Bath. Rees co-founded the Oxford University spin-out, Oxford Molecular plc, in 1989, which floated on the LSE in 1994. He held senior executive roles in French and Swedish biotech companies and was a founding board member of the Austrian antibody biotech company F-star. An expert in antibody repertoire theory, he is a consultant in immunology and a member of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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• 1. The origins of medical theory and practice2. A new disease, syphilis, arrives in Europe and with it new medical voices3. Smallpox: Origins and remedies4. A revolutionary solution to smallpox arrives…but not without opposition5. Scientific skepticism in the 19th & 20th centuries: Not new but more divisive6. Genes and heredity7. The staccato discovery of penicillin8. Trials and tragedies…the thalidomide story9. Fusion of a different kind: The antibody revolution10. A different ‘helix’ story: Stomach ulcers caused by bacteria?11. Anti-vaccinationism and hesitancy in the modern era12. Lessons from twenty-five millennia of medical science orthodoxy