About Corinne Doria

I am a historian specializing in the social history of medicine. I am a lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen and I teach Disability Studies at Sciences-Po (Paris). My work focuses on the history of ophthalmology and visual impairment in the West.

Corinne Doria is a historian specializing in the social history of medicine. She is a lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen and teaches Disability Studies at Sciences-Po (Paris). Her work focuses on the history of ophthalmology and visual impairment in the West.

NBN Episodes hosted by Corinne:

Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

March 1, 2024

Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres

Marchella Ward
Hosted by Corinne Doria

The use of disability as a metaphor is ubiquitous in popular culture – nowhere more so than in the myths, stereotypes and tropes around blindness. To …

Jacalyn Duffin, "Covid-19: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

December 12, 2022

Covid-19

Jacalyn Duffin
Hosted by Corinne Doria

For two years the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. The physician and medical historian Jacalyn Duffin presents a global history of the virus, …

Susan H. Brandt, "Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

June 29, 2022

Women Healers

Susan H. Brandt
Hosted by Corinne Doria

In her eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, the Philadelphia healer Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her ingenuity and authority with the b…

Kenneth L. Caneva, "Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception" (MIT Press, 2021)

February 10, 2022

Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy

Kenneth L. Caneva
Hosted by Corinne Doria

In 1847, Herman Helmholtz, arguably the most important German physicist of the nineteenth century, published his formulation of what became known as t…

Omar W. Nasim, "The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History" (MIT Press, 2021)

December 28, 2021

The Astronomer's Chair

Omar W. Nasim
Hosted by Corinne Doria

The astronomer's chair is a leitmotif in the history of astronomy, appearing in hundreds of drawings, prints, and photographs from a variety of source…