Joy Harvey

{{short description|American historian of science (born 1934)}}

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Joy Dorothy Harvey (born 1934) is an American historian of science.[http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86873668.html Library of Congress Name Authority file]

Life

Harvey gained a PhD from Harvard University in 1983.Harvey, Races specified, evolution transformed: the social context of scientific debates originating in the Societe d'anthropologie de Paris, 1859-1902. PhD, Harvard University, 1983. She has been an associate editor of the Darwin Correspondence Project, and written a biography of Clémence Royer, Darwin's first French translator.{{cite book|author1=Eve-Marie Engels|author2=Thomas F. Glick|title=The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JJivAwAAQBAJ&pg=PR20|year=2008|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4411-6662-3|page=20}} She and Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie collaborated on the multi-volume Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science.Pnina G. Abir-Am, [http://blogs.brandeis.edu/drpgabir-am/files/2018/02/Pnina-on-The-Making-of-a-Historian-of-Women-in-Science-MBO-at-80-HSSN-January2018-22-25-pdf-landscape-1.pdf The Making of a Historian of Women in Science: Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie at 80!], History of Science Society Newsletter, January 2018.

Works

  • 'Medicine and politics: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Paris Commune', Dialectical anthropology, Vol. 15 (1990), p. 107–117
  • [http://www.histcnrs.fr/ColloqDijon/Harvey-neurophysio.pdf l'autre côté du miroir (The Other Side of the Mirror): French Neurophysiology and English Interpretations], in Claude Debru, Jean Gayon and Jean-Francois Picard, eds., Les sciences biologiques et médicales en France, 1920-1950, 1994.
  • 'Charles Darwins "Selective strategies": die französische versus die englische Reaktion', Rezeption von Evolutionstheorien im 19. Jahrhundert, 1995, pp.225–61
  • Almost a man of genius: Clémence Royer, feminism, and nineteenth-century science. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997
  • 'History of Science, History and Science, and Natural Science: Undergraduate Teaching of the History of Science at Harvard, 1938-1970', Isis, Vol. 90 (1999), pp.S270-S294.
  • (ed. with Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie) The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. New York: Routledge, 2000
  • 'Darwin's ‘Angels’: the Women Correspondents of Charles Darwin', in Intellectual History Review, Vol. 19, Issue 2 (2009), pp. 197–210.

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