Carin has started a new position as the Executive Director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. You can read more about the appointment here.
Carin Berkowitz
Ph.D. CandidateScience and Technology StudiesCornell University
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Dissertation Fellow
Making British Medicine: Practice and Pedagogy in the Early Nineteenth Century
Abstract. From 1823 until his death in 1842, Charles Bell engaged in a priority dispute with François Magendie over the discovery that motor and sensory nerves are housed in separate roots. I use this dispute to open an examination of medical pedagogy and reform in Britain in the early 19th century, looking at the development of different audiences with the expansion of medical and scientific journals, at the significance of experiment and practice in medical education, and at the roles of national and professional politics that inflected practically every issue in the medical community. My dissertation focuses on a set of “conservative reformers” who have received little attention from historians. These reformers claimed to be restoring the virtues of a truly British medical education by creating more practical training for surgeons and physicians, offering joint training in medicine and surgery, and emphasizing the importance of ward-walking and clinical lectures in the hospital.
Updates
Carin Berkowitz
Carin Berkowitz
has been elected to a three-year term on the American Historical Association's Nominating Committee.
Carin Berkowitz
Congratulations to Carin Berkowitz on the publication of Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America (University of Pittsburgh Press), which she co-edited with Bernard Lightman.
Carin Berkowitz
Berkowitz's book Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform was published this year with the University of Chicago Press. A Forum that Berkowitz edited and in which she has an article, "Beyond Illustrations: Doing Anatomy with Images and Objects," was recently published by the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and was featured on JHU Press's blog. The Forum was based on a workshop hosted by the Consortium in the fall of 2012.
Carin Berkowitz
Berkowitz was elected to the History of Science Society governing Council for 2015-17. She has two articles coming out in December, one in History of Science ("The Surgeon's Seeing Hand: Teaching Anatomy to the Senses in Britain, 1800-1840") and the other in Notes and Records of the Royal Society ("Priority and Methodological Controversy in Early Nineteenth-Century Anatomy"). Her book, Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform, will be published in fall 2015 with University of Chicago Press.