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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, Harvard University

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 Zemurray, Jr. and Doris
Zemurray Stone
Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science

David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the
Lisa Haushofer, Graduate Student,
Wheatland
Culture of Medicine
Curatorial Fellow
Orange: Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Purple: Department of the History of Science, Harvard University; Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Cara Kiernan Fallon, Graduate Student,
Wheatland
Paola Savoia,
Graduate Student, Wheatland Curatorial
Fellow
Blue: Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medicine School
Curatorial Fellow
*Dr. Podolsky is also Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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

Curators

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

Cira Louise Brown,
Wheatland
Curatorial Fellow
Cara Kiernan Fallon, Graduate Student,

Wheatland

Orange: Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Green: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Curatorial Fellow
Paola Savoia,
Graduate Student, Wheatland Curatorial
Fellow
Sara J. Schechner, David P. Wheatland
Curator

Designers

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

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

The David P. Wheatland
Charitable Trust

Harvard Museums of

Science & Culture
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Collaborators & Supporters

Harvard University Herbaria and the Botany Libraries
Harvard Museum of
Natural History

Harvard Art Museums

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Peabody Museum of

Museum of
Several private collectors
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University
Comparative Zoology, Harvard
University
Museum of Russian
Icons

University of
Michigan Medical School, Anatomical Donations Program,

Plastination

Harvard Medical School, Program in Medical Education
Rosamond Purcell,
Artist and
Photographer

Laboratory

Loans

Graduate Student Experience

Key Takeaways

1. New medium to explore and advance scholarship

2. Opportunity to work in

outside fields of interest
3. Training in new fields

New Medium for Scholarship

Outside Fields of Interest

Training in New Fields

Seeing anatomy

Auzoux models of human and cat brains

19th Left female humerus,

mounted with

right male humerus on wooden base painted blue

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