PhD, University of Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As a historian of science, technology and medicine, I ask questions about the creation of scientific knowledge as well as the production of ignorance. In my classes, I encourage students to ask why some claims about nature and the body are privileged over others, what happens when experts disagree, and what is lost when we discount or exclude certain kinds of knowledge. I find medical technologies to be particularly fascinating focal points for these questions, and many of my projects examine instruments used in medicine, including electrotherapy devices, x-ray machines, and infant incubators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to being Chair of the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts<\/a> at 91̽»¨ Mudd, I am a member of the intercollegiate program in Science, Technology and Society<\/a> at the Claremont Colleges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCultures of Measurement: Physics, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy<\/a>,\u201d Isis 116, no. 4 (2025), 671-693. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMothering Machines: The Promise of Infant Incubators in the early 20th century<\/a>\u201d Canadian Journal of Health History 42, no. 2 (2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDental X-Rays and the Imagined Patient,\u201d in Technology, health and the patient consumer in the 20th century<\/a>, Rachel Elder and Thomas Schlich, editors. (Manchester University Press, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vivien Hamilton and Daniel M. Stoebel, \u201cHistory in the Education of Scientists: Encouraging Judgement and Social Action<\/a>,\u201d Isis 11, no.3 (2020), 623- 630. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cX-Ray Protection in American Hospitals,\u201d in Inevitably Toxic: Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure and Expertise<\/a>. 23-49. Edited by Brinda Sarathy, Vivien Hamilton and Janet Farrell Brodie, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\nSelected Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n