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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

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 (91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Press / Boydell & Brewer, 2025).
  • "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Covering of Patients' Eyes and a Microethics of Medical Photography," Medical Humanities 50 (2024): 770-778.
  • "''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.
  • "'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.
  • "Collecting Affect: Emotion and Empathy in World War II Photographs and Drawings of Plastic Surgery," Medical Humanities 48 (2022): 431-440.