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Dr Emily Booth was educated at the University of Adelaide and La Trobe University in Melbourne. She was a research associate at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London.

Emily Booth Dr Emily Booth was educated at the University of Adelaide and La Trobe University in Melbourne. In 1997 she was a research associate at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. She gained a PhD in history from La Trobe in 2002. Since that time she has taught in a range of history courses at La Trobe, Deakin University and Melbourne University.

Emily Booth is the author of a short café guide to Melbourne and a long book on seventeenth-century English medicine, and co-editor of a collection of essays on Vasco Da Gama. She’s written a variety of articles for print media and was for some years a regular public radio broadcaster. For the past nine years she has worked for Melbourne-based independent publishing house Text Publishing, where she is currently the Sales & Marketing Director. Emily Booth lives in Melbourne with her family.

 
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