Research Interests: Mexican history; Nahua history and culture; decolonization; parteras; epistemological history of plant medicine; femme technology; history of childbirth; ritual and magic.
Research Interests: Performance validation/error assessment practices for automated and semi-automated inference systems where ‘gold standard’ truth data is difficult or impossible to obtain, the ways in which these practices have (and have not) evolved over time, how they privilege certain metrics over others (e.g. quantitative over qualitative, representative cases over edge cases), and how they reflect the valuation of different types of labor (e.g. coding vs. manual review) within the development community.
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: History of biology; Postwar U.S. history; Cold War science; history of the American family; 1970s U.S. activism; feminist science studies.
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:History of biology; history of medicine; sex, gender, and identity in healthcare and medicine; feminist science studies; health and the environment.... Read more about Abigail Higgins
Research Interests: History of the body; history of the mind; knowledge exchange and re/production; globalization of science and standards; media in science; Japan and empire.
Research Interests: Global history; history of colonialism and capitalism; animal studies; environmental history; history of Latin America and the Global South. ... Read more about Angélica Márquez-Osuna
Research Interests: History of medicine and public health; history of religion; women’s history; history of childhood; history of eugenics. ... Read more about Jamie Marsella