Caitjan Gainty

Caitjan Gainty is a historian of twentieth century medicine and technology. She initially trained in public health and worked for several years in health care research before returning to academia to pursue a PhD in the history of medicine at the University of Chicago. Her first book The Product of Medicine (Duke, 2025) investigates the curious overlaps between medicine and industry that resulted in the extremely formative early 20th century "medical efficiency" movement in the United States. From 2019, she has run the Healthy Scepticism project (https://www.healthyscepticism.com; tweeting @healthy_scept), which examines the role of medicine's critics and detractors, its dispossessed and antagonists in the constitution of its contemporary form. And with Agnes Arnold-Forster, she has written a series of articles (gathered at https://www.healthyscepticism.com/covid-19) which offer perspective on the pandemic from a historically-inflected viewpoint.