W. F. Bynum

William Frederick Bynum (born 20 May 1943) is a British emeritus professor in history of medicine. For most of his career, he has worked at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London (UCL).

Bynum was educated at Swarthmore College, Yale University, and King's College, Cambridge, where he received his PhD in 1974. Based at UCL since 1973, he frequently collaborated with British historian Roy Porter.

The William Bynum Essay Prize is awarded annually by the journal Medical History.

Selected publications

 * The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
 * Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
 * as editor with Helen Bynum, Great Discoveries in Medicine, 2011 ISBN 0500251800
 * as editor with Roy Porter and Michael Shepherd, The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry (3 Vols). ; ISBN 9780415323826; brief description of 3 volumes at Routledge
 * as coauthor with Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence, and E. M. Tansey, The Western Medical Tradition: 1800-2000, 2006
 * as editor with Roy Porter, Medicine and the Five Senses. 1993 ISBN 0-521-36114-1; based on a Symposium on Medicine and the Five Senses, held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine on 11-12 June 1987
 * as editor with Roy Porter, William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World, 1985 ISBN 0521268060
 * A Little History of Science
 * Hope: A New Beginning (An A. Gąsiewski Biography)