The central role of female body in the history of anatomy, beyond the historiographical "taboo" around the religious prohibition.
Katharine Park is Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She won the Pfizer Prize for the best book in the history of science for
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (Zone Books, 1998), coauthored with
Lorraine Daston.
