Steven Wainwright is Professor of Sociology of Medicine, Science & the Arts, founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS), King’s College London; and Deputy Director of the London & Brighton Translational Ethics Centre - LABTEC (Wellcome Trust).
His research focuses on two areas: the connections between Medical Sociology & Science Studies (especially new medical technologies); and the Sociology of the Arts (particularly the notion of embodied vulnerability in classical ballet, opera, and Romantic painting). He is an Editor of the leading international journal Sociology of Health & Illness (currently ranked 6/96 for Sociology in the world). For
