Scholar - Women Also Know History

Participant Info

Keywords: history of science, history of medicine, art and science, history of anatomy

About Me: I am broadly interested in the intersections of science and medicine in the late Enlightenment and early 19th century and in the place of pedagogy in the medical and life sciences. I have published extensively on politics and pedagogy and on images and objects in 19th-century anatomy.

Recent Publications: Books

Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Coeditor with Bernard Lightman, Science Museums in Transition: Anglo-American Cultures of Display in the Nineteenth Century (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017).

Refereed Journal Articles

Introduction to the Forum, “Beyond Illustrations: Doing Anatomy with Images and Objects,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 89 (Summer 2015): 165–170.

“The Illustrious Anatomist: Authorship, Patronage, and Illustrative Style in Anatomy Folios, 1700–1840,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Forum, “Beyond Illustrations: Doing Anatomy with Images and Objects,” 89 (Summer 2015): 171–208.

“Charles Bell’s Seeing Hand: Teaching Anatomy to the Senses in Britain, 1750–1840,” History of Science, 52 (December 2014): 377–400.

“Defining a Discovery: Priority and Methodological Controversy in Early Nineteenth-Century Anatomy,” Notes and Records of the Royal Society (December 2014).

“Systems of Display: The Making of Anatomical Knowledge in Enlightenment Britain,” British Journal for the History of Science 46:3 (September 2013): 359–387.

“The Beauty of Anatomy: Visual Displays and Surgical Education in Early Nineteenth-Century London,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 85:2 (Summer 2011): 248–271.