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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:
March 1, 2024
Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
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 …
December 12, 2022
Covid-19
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, …
June 29, 2022
Women Healers
In her eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, the Philadelphia healer Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her ingenuity and authority with the b…
February 10, 2022
Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy
In 1847, Herman Helmholtz, arguably the most important German physicist of the nineteenth century, published his formulation of what became known as t…
December 28, 2021
The Astronomer's Chair
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…