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Professor Bruce Charlton Professor Bruce Charlton

Job title: Professor of Theoretical Medicine

Department: Medicine

Area of expertise: Science research and university policy; IQ and human personality

Further details: Professor Bruce Charlton has been Editor in Chief of Medical Hypotheses since 2003 and Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry at the University of Newcastle since 2001. He was Visiting Professor, Health Services Research, University of East London (1999-2002) and Visiting Distinguished Millennial Fellow, King's College, London (2000).

Professor Charlton is the author of these books:

  • Charlton, B & P. Andras, The modernization imperative (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2003).
  • Charlton, B. Psychiatry and the human condition (Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000). Published in Italian as Psichiatria e condizione umana (Rome: CIC Edizioni Internazionali, 2002).
  • Downie, R.S. & B. Charlton, The making of a doctor: Medical education in theory and practice (Oxford: OUP, 1992).

He has published widely in scientific journals, and writes a monthly editorial for Medical Hypotheses. His recent publications include:

  • Charlton, B. & P. Andras, "Evaluating universities using simple scientometric research-output metrics: Total citation counts per university for a retrospective seven-year rolling sample", Science and Public Policy 34.8 (2007), 555-563.
  • Charlton, B. & P. Andras, P. "Complex biological memory conceptualized as an abstract communication system-human long term memories grow in complexity during sleep and undergo selection while awake", in Understanding complex systems (Heidelberg: Springer, 2007), 325-339.
  • Charlton, B. "Why are doctors still prescribing neuroleptics?", QJM 99 (2006), 417-20.
  • Andras, P. & B. Charlton, "Faults, errors and failures in communications: A systems theory perspective on organisational structure", in D. Besnard, C. Gacek & C.B. Jones (eds) Structure for dependability: Computer-based systems from an interdisciplinary perspective (Heidelberg: Springer, 2005), 189-216.
  • Charlton, B. & P. Andras, "Modernizing UK health services: 'short-sharp-shock' reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine", Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 11 (2005), 111-119.

Further information about Professor Charlton (including the full texts of many of his publications) is available at http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/ (external link).

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