Dr Steve Lewis

Senior Lecturer

Dr Stephen Lewis is a senior lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences. He holds a BSc in Human Biology (Surrey), an MA in the History of Philosophy (Wales) and a PhD in Anatomy for a thesis entitled Studies in Catch-Up Growth in the Rat Skeleton (Wales).

Qualifications

BSc, MA, PhD

Overview

Before coming to Chester Dr Lewis was a prosector of anatomy at the University of Wales, Cardiff - teaching medical, dental and other students on courses allied to medicine. He also has previous professional experience working as a radiographer.

Dr Lewis has delivered invited talks at the University of Vienna, the International School of Philosophy and History of Biology and Medicine (Sapienza – Università di Roma) summer course on Epistemologies of Medical Knowledge and Practice in Nettuno, Italy, the Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenberg, Austria, the Linköping Philosophy Club and at Tema H at the University of Linköping, Sweden. He has also been a research fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute and an academic visitor at Tema H, University of Linköping.

Dr Lewis maintains the Evolutionary Medicine website.

Teaching

Dr Lewis currently teaches across a range of the department's programmes, with particular interest in Physical Anthropology (BI6119) and in Physiology (BI4110).

Research

Dr Lewis's research work is concerned with exploring the biological and philosophical aspects of the concepts of illness, disease and health, and considering what, by extension, these notions say about life and death, living and dying, in general. A fuller description of his research can be found here.

Dr. Lewis also has a separate personal research site. His work can be followed at Academia.edu.

Published work

Copies of Dr. Lewis's current and earlier work may be obtained from his personal research website and at the ChesterRep.

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