October 2019
Research Seminar: Katharine Park
Katharine Park is a historian of medieval and early modern European science, with a focus on medicine and the life sciences and on women, gender and sexuality. Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, she is the author of Doctors and Medicine in Renaissance Florence (1986) and Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection (2006); the co-author, with Lorraine Daston, of Wonders and the Order…
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Research Seminar: Mical Raz
Mical Raz, MD, PhD, is the Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Policy and Health, and an Associate Professor of History and Medicine at the University of Rochester. She is also a practicing hospitalist at the Strong Memorial Hospital. She is the author of What's Wrong with the Poor? Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty (UNC Press, 2013) and The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery (Rochester, 2013), and her new book, tentatively titled Abusive Policies, is under contract…
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