I am a deputy chair of Cambridge Reproduction. My first book, Embryos in Wax: Models from the Ziegler Studio, is available from the Whipple Museum. Spanning from the 19th to the 21st century, and from the German lands to the United States, it explores how scientific images succeed and fail, become taken for granted and cause trouble. My last book, Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud, tells the extraordinary story of an alleged forgery that became a textbook classic. As holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2021–4, I am researching and writing The Many Births of the Test-Tube Baby, a history of claims to IVF. I am finishing The Embryo Series: Imaging Human Development Before Birth, the subject of my Innes Lecture. Having worked most on German-speaking Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries, I increasingly study Britain and the United States and range from 1750 to the present. Still supervising PhD students.Ī historian of biological and medical sciences, I am interested generally in visual communication and specifically in reproduction, embryology, anatomy and evolution. Professor of History of Science and Medicine
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