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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:

History of Science December 12, 2022

Covid-19

A History

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, with a focus on Canada. In Covid-19 …
History of Science June 29, 2022

Women Healers

Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia

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 bold strokes of her pen. Paschall developed an extensive healing practice …
History of Science February 10, 2022

Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy

Contexts of Creation and Reception

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 the conservation of energy--unarguably the most important single …
History of Science December 28, 2021

The Astronomer's Chair

A Visual and Cultural History

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 sources. Nineteenth-century stargazers in particular seemed eager …