Susan C. Lawrence

Associate Professor of History

Contact Information:

623 Oldfather Hall

Department of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
Phone: (402) 472-3240
Fax: (402) 472-8839
E-mail:

Joined the Department:

August 2007

From my early years in high school, I wanted to pursue a career that would let me somehow combine my interest in the sciences and in the humanities. I found it in the history of medicine, receiving my Ph.D. from the Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, after I received my BA in Mathematics from Pomona College. My first love was the history of medical education and the formation of hospital-centered medical communities in 18th century London, the subject of my book, Charitable Knowledge. My interests since then have expanded both geographically and chronologically, with a series of articles on the history of medicine in Iowa from 1850 to 1950. While a faculty member at the University of Iowa's College of Medicine, I taught in the Medical Gross Anatomy laboratory with the dissection team for first year medical students as part of my preparation for one of my current research projects, the history of human dissection in medical education in the 19th and 20th centuries. I also work on the ways that growing privacy concerns (particularly medical privacy) affect historical research.

Expertise:

• History of Medicine
• Science, Technology and Society

Education:

1977 B.A. Pomona College, Claremont, CA -- Mathematics
1980 M.A. Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto -- History of Science
1985 Ph.D. Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto -- History of Medicine