I sit on the advisory board of the Haeckel letters edition and the council of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. I co-direct the Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences and am an associate editor of the Journal of the History of Biology. Having lectured in Cambridge HPS and at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, I became a teaching officer here in 1998 and won a Pilkington teaching prize in 2006. I came to history of science and medicine after postdoctoral work in developmental biology. These led, among many other things, to Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day, a large, accessible, illustrated book, and to the continuing Generation to Reproduction Seminar. From 2004 to 2018 I was principal holder of Wellcome enhancement and strategic awards on the theme 'Generation to Reproduction'. 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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