Michael Farthing

Michael Farthing's career has been as an academic physician in the UK and USA. In addition he has conducted medical research in several low-income countries including India, Zambia, South Africa and Belize and has written many scientific papers and medical books. Since leaving medicine, he has published a critique of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings and a 'memoire plus', Finding India, which explored the emergence of modern, independent India tracked across the last fifty years through...See more

Michael Farthing's career has been as an academic physician in the UK and USA. In addition he has conducted medical research in several low-income countries including India, Zambia, South Africa and Belize and has written many scientific papers and medical books. Since leaving medicine, he has published a critique of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings and a 'memoire plus', Finding India, which explored the emergence of modern, independent India tracked across the last fifty years through the eyes of a foreigner. He is an Honorary Professor at University College London, an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex and lives between London and Sussex. His wife is a radiologist and they have two sons, an artist and an actor. See less