June Goodfield

June Goodfield is a British historian, scientist, and writer of both fiction and non-fiction.

Born Gwyneth June Goodfield in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1927, she read Zoology at the University of London and undertook a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds University, graduating in 1959, and spending the following year as a research assistant at Oxford University. After teaching biology at Benenden School, Kent, and Cheltenham Ladies' College, Goodfield lectured in History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds University until 1960. She was consultant at Harvard University's Department of Education (1960–65), Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Wellesley College (1966–69), Professor of Human Medicine and Philosophy at Michigan State University (1969–78), Senior Research Fellow at the Rockefeller University (1977–82), and Robinson Professor at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Goodfield has participated in the work of professional bodies including the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Zoological Society, and the Royal Society of Medicine. She was President of the United Nations Association in 1986-7.

Goodfield married Stephen Toulmin in 1960, and collaborated with him on a series of books on the history of science, including The Architecture of Matter (1962) and The Discovery of Time (1966). In the 1970s and 1980s she wrote on the battle against disease, particularly The Siege of Cancer (1975) and Quest for the Killers (1985), which described the epidemiological search for the cause and cure of five deadly diseases: Kuru, Hepatitis B, Schistosomiasis, leprosy, and smallpox.

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