Paul Foley

Experience

• –present
  Conjoint Senior Research Fellow, Neuroscience Research Australia
• –present
  Conjoint Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales

Education

• 2001 
  University of Würzburg, Germany, Doctor rerum naturae (PhD): History of Medicine
• 2000 
  University of Würzburg, Germany, Magister Artium: History
• 1985 
  Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Bachelor of Science (Honours): Biological Sciences

Publications

• 2011
  Things worse than death: The encephalitis lethargica story, New York: Springer (in preparation)
• 2011
  Encephalitis lethargica from the inside: the patient perspective, In: S Jacynta (ed) History of the neurological patient. London: Wellcome Inst. Hist. Med.
• 2010
  Encephalitis lethargica-like disorders prior to Economo. , In: J Vilensky (ed) Encephalitis Lethargica: During and After the Epidemic. Oxford University Press
• 2009
  Encephalitis lethargica and the influenza virus, Journal of Neural Transmission 116: 143-150, 1295-1321
• 2003
  Beans, roots & leaves: The history of the pharmacological therapy of parkinsonism, Marburg: Tectum

Grants and Contracts

• 2008
  NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (2008-2010)

  Role:

  Researcher/Author

  Funding Source:

  National Institutes of Health, USA

• 2004
  Encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s (and afterwards): the forgotten epidemic (2004-2007)

  Role:

  Researcher

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2002
  Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2002-2003)

  Role:

  Researcher

  Funding Source:

  Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Research Areas

• History And Philosophy Of Medicine (220205)
• History And Philosophy Of Science (Incl. Non Historical Philosophy Of Science) (220206)
• Neurosciences Not Elsewhere Classified (110999)