Body of Knowledge: The Benefits and Challenges of a Multi-Faceted Curatorial Collaborative

Dominic Hall, Curator, Warren Anatomical Museum, Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine,

Cara Kiernan Fallon, MPH, Graduate Student, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

Lisa Haushofer, MD, Graduate Student, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Katharine Park, Samuel David S. Jones, A. Lisa Haushofer, Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Bernard Ackerman Graduate Student, Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of Professor of the Wheatland the History of Science Culture of Medicine Curatorial Fellow

Orange: Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

Purple: Department of the History of Science, Harvard University; Cara Kiernan Fallon, Global Health and Social Medicine, Paola Savoia, Graduate Student, Graduate Student, Wheatland Blue: Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Wheatland Curatorial Curatorial Fellow Library of Medicine, Harvard Medicine School Fellow

*Dr. Podolsky is also Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Scott Podolsky, Dominic Hall, Jack Eckert, Public Director* Services Librarian Curator, Warren Anatomical Museum

Curators Lisa Haushofer, Graduate Student, Samantha van Wheatland Gerbig, Designer & Curatorial Fellow Photographer

Cara Kiernan Fallon, Cira Louise Brown, Orange: Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Graduate Student, Wheatland Curatorial Fellow Wheatland Green: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Department Curatorial Fellow of the History of Science, Harvard University

Paola Savoia, Sara J. Schechner, Graduate Student, David P. Wheatland Wheatland Curatorial Curator Fellow

Designers Center for the Collection of History of Medicine, Historical Scientific Harvard Medical Francis A. Countway Instruments, School, Program in Harvard Museums of Library of Medicine, Department of the Science & Culture Medical Education Harvard Medical History of Science, School Harvard University

Center for the History of Medicine, The Ackerman Francis A. Countway Black: Collaborators Program on Library of Medicine, Medicine & Culture, Lilac: Supporters Harvard Medical Harvard Medical School School

The David P. The Andrew W. Harvard Museums of Wheatland Mellon Foundation Science & Culture Charitable Trust

Collaborators & Supporters Harvard University Harvard Museum of Herbaria and the Natural History Botany Libraries

Arthur and Elizabeth Peabody Museum of Museum of on the History of Several private Archaeology and Comparative Women in America, Museum of Russian collectors Ethnology, Harvard Zoology, Harvard Radcliffe Institute Icons University University for Advanced Study, Harvard University

University of Michigan Medical Harvard Medical Rosamond Purcell, School, Anatomical School, Program in Artist and Donations Program, Medical Education Photographer Plastination Laboratory

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Graduate Student Experience Key Takeaways

1. New medium to explore and advance scholarship

2. Opportunity to work in outside fields of interest

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