Christine Slobogin
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics
Joint Appointment in Art and Art History
- Office Location
- G-7011C in Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics, URMC
- Web Address
- Website
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Overview
Research Interests
- The medical humanities
- Visual culture of plastic and reconstructive surgery
- Medical photography and photographic anonymity
- Cartoons and visual humor
- Ethics and emotions in medical visual culture
- The body and the museum
Selected Publications
- Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain (University of Rochester Press / Boydell & Brewer, 2025). https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/putting-plastic-surgery-on-paper/
- "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Covering of Patients' Eyes and a Microethics of Medical Photography," Medical Humanities 50 (2024): 770-778. https://mh.bmj.com/content/50/4/770.info
- "''E's a funny doctor': Dickie Orpen and the Visual Humour of the Second World War Reconstructive Surgery Ward," in British Humour and the Second World War: "Keep Smiling Through", ed. Juliette Pattinson and Linsey Robb (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 111-135. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/british-humour-and-the-second-world-war-9781350201668/
- "'Something useful in a National sense': Percy Hennell's Surgical and Nationalist Colour Photography, 1940-1948," Visual Culture in Britain 23, no. 1 (2022): 31-49. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14714787.2022.2094458
- "Collecting Affect: Emotion and Empathy in World War II Photographs and Drawings of Plastic Surgery," Medical Humanities 48 (2022): 431-440. https://mh.bmj.com/content/48/4/431.info