Andrew Lea is a resident physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in History and Science and went on to receive his D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in History of Science and Medicine from the University of Oxford. During his doctoral studies, he was a residential fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG) in Berlin. He earned his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he was selected as Match Day speaker. His research explores the history of diagnosis, disease, and medical technology and has appeared in leading historical and medical journals, including Isis and the New England Journal of Medicine. His first book Digitizing Diagnosis: Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) examines early efforts to computerize medical diagnosis and decision-making. He is working on his second book-length project, tentatively titled Aid to Thought: A History of the Peripheral Brain in Medicine, which looks at the history of reference tools in medicine, from Index Medicus and Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, to UpToDate and new algorithmically mediated resources. He lives in Boston with his partner (also named Andrew) and their greyhound (not named Andrew).
Bluesky: @andrewlea.bsky.social
Email: andrewscottlea@gmail.com; [email protected]
