Heather John

Heather John is a physician, with a psychiatry practice focusing on psychotherapy, in the Philadelphia area. She trained as a historian of science and medicine, with doctoral work on the history of medical education, and research interests in the histories of disease, religion, and activism, as seen in controversy over the use of the term “leprosy.” She has degrees from Stanford, the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, and Yale, with clinical training at Northwestern and UCLA.