Research Interests: History of medicine; early modern science; intellectual history; European history; Italian history; The Enlightenment; enviromental history; epidemics; historical epistemology.
Research Interests: History of medicine and science in and beyond Europe and America; history of chronic diseases such as heart diseases, neurological disorders and cancers, of therapeutics such as cardiology, cardiac surgery, and coronary revascularization, of neurology and neurosurgery, of specialty training and education, of global health, and of medical ethics in sub-Saharan Africa; and the origin of neurosurgery in the US
Research Interests: Contested illness; patient experience/activism; medical epistemology; history of epidemiology; environmental health; medical sociology.
Research Interests: The intersections of health and development, the global and the local, in the making and mediation of people, ideas, values, practices and materials. The focus of her current project is infant mortality.
Research Interests: Health foods and nutrition; history of medicine and public health; food studies; history of consumption and advertising; history of the life sciences.
Research Interests: History of public health; environmental history; science, technology, and society; science policy; history of biology and biotechnology.
Research Interests: Medical anthropology; social medicine; global health; drug policy; politics of health; histories of medicine in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.