Countway Library's Center for the History of Medicine
invites you to attend the first lecture of the Fall 2025
Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine

with Christine Slobogin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics, University of Rochester Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, University of Rochester
 

Christine Slobogin is an art historian of medicine, primarily researching and writing on the visual culture of plastic surgery, humor in medicine, and anonymity and ethics in medical photography. She was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Rochester, where she teaches medical and master’s students. She is jointly appointed in the Department of Art and Art History. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

Slobogin's research has been published in the journals Medical Humanities and Visual Culture in Britain, and in British Humour and the Second World War: “Keep Smiling Through” (Bloomsbury, 2023). Her monograph Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain is available from the publisher’s website or via open access.

1:00 P.M.—2:30 P.M. Eastern U.S. time
This is an online event. No RSVP required.
Meeting link
Passcode: 596082
Meeting ID: 964 719 7432
For further information, contact Diana Satin.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital, and the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Longwood Campus