Caroline Rance

Historian

Caroline Rance started The Quack Doctor (thequackdoctor.com) to share her interest in the history of patent remedies and health fraud. She now also writes at thequackdoctor.substack.com and co-hosts the literature podcast She Wrote Too (shewrotetoo.substack.com). She regularly gives talks on the history of medicine and has spoken at The Old Operating Theatre Museum, the Wellcome Library, the Thackray Museum, St George’s Hospital medical school, the QED conference, Skeptics in the Pub groups and numerous other venues. She has appeared on the BBC’s Great British Railway Journeys and A House Through Time and BBC Radio 4’s comedy panel show, Best Medicine. She has an MA in Medicine, Science and Society: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives from Birkbeck, University of London.
You can find more of her work over on substack at www.thequackdoctor.substack.com