Projects

Diana “Dickie” Orpen, BAPRAS/D 393, 1944, Archives of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgeons, London.

Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain

Now available to purchase and to read open access on the publisher’s site here.
Use code BB135 for 35% off.

Marc Geller, Tom Shearer, 1991, scan from artist’s print.

Sick Jokes: Visual Histories of Humour, Health, and the Body

This edited volume will be published in fall 2026 by Manchester University Press.

Image from: William Macewan, The Growth of Bone: Observations: An Experimental Inquiry into the Development and Reproduction of Diaphyseal Bone (Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1912).

Anonymity in Patient Photography: Histories, Aesthetics, and Ethics

Four twentieth-century dental phantoms. Image credit: Agent Gallery Chicago / agentgallery.com.

The Dental Phantom: Tooth Horror and Medical Education

Early work on this project has been published
in the Journal of the American College of Dentists, and can be found here.

Andy Warhol, Before and After, 4, acrylic and graphite pencil on linen, 1962, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

“Noses Reshaped”: Seeing the Racialized, Categorized, and Surgically Altered Nose in Andy Warhol’s Work