Dr. Christine Slobogin

I am an art historian of medicine, primarily researching and writing on the visual culture of plastic surgery, humor in medicine, and anonymity and ethics in medical photography. I am an Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Rochester, where I teach medical and master’s students. I am joint appointed in the Department of Art and Art History. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

My monograph, titled Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain, is now available! Order it from the publisher’s website here or read it open access here. I am now working on a second monograph provisionally titled Anonymity in Patient Photography: Histories, Aesthetics, and Ethics. A volume titled Sick Jokes: Visual Histories of Humour, Health, and the Body (co-edited with Katie Snow and Laura Cowley) will be out with Manchester University Press in the fall of 2026. Other research of mine has been published in edited volumes and in journals such as Medical Humanities and Visual Culture in Britain. See the above “Publications” and “Projects” tabs for more.