Bernard Harris is Professor of Social Policy in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde.  He was previously Professor of the History of Social Policy at the University of Southampton.  He has edited or coedited books on Race, science and medicine (Routledge, 1999); Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800 (Routledge, 2007); Gender and wellbeing in Europe: historical and contemporary perspectives (Ashgate, 2009); and Welfare and old age in Europe and North America (Pickering and Chatto, 2012).  He is the author of The health of the schoolchild: a history of the school medical service in England and and Wales (Open University Press, 1995) and The origins of the British welfare state: society, state and social welfare in England and Wales, 1800-1945 (Palgrave, 2004).  He is also the co-author (with Roderick Floud, Robert Fogel and Sok Chul Hong) of The changing body: health, nutrition and human development in the western world since 1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2011).