Katharine Park is an American

historian of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient history, ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural science, natural, social science, social, and formal science, formal. Pr ...

. She is the Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science emerita at

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. She specializes in the history of

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, and the female body in

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and

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Europe, as well as categories and practices of experience and observation in the

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. Park was awarded a

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in 1974. She received her M.Phil in the Combined Historical Studies of the Renaissance at the

Warburg Institute The Warburg Institute is a research institution associated with the University of London in central London, England. A member of the School of Advanced Study, its focus is the study of cultural history and the role of images in culture – cros ...

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, and earned a Ph.D. in the History of Science at Harvard in 1981.

Awards

''Wonders of Nature,'' which she co-authored with

Lorraine Daston Lorraine Jenifer Daston (born June 9, 1951) is an American historian of science. She is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the U ...

, won the

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of the

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for the best book in the history of science in 1999; the book was translated into

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and

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. In 2002, Park was elected to the

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. Her book ''Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection'' (2006) won the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize in 2007 and the

American Association for the History of Medicine The American Association for the History of Medicine is an American professional association dedicated to the study of medical history. Background It is the largest society dedicated to medical history in the United States, and the oldest such or ...

William H. Welch Medal in 2009. In 2021 she was awarded the

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.Dan David Prize 2021
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Works

*''Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence'', Princeton University Press, 1985;
*''Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750'' with

, Zone Books, 1998, *''Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection'', Zone Books, 2006, *

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External links

Park's history of science page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Park, Katharine American medical historians Living people Harvard University faculty American historians of science American women historians Harvard University alumni Alumni of the Warburg Institute Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women

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