- Degrees: BA (Hons), BSc (UQ)
- Supervisor: Dr Karin Sellberg
- Dissertaion Title: Internal Secretions and "Chemical Messengers": Re-thinking Hormones and Hormone Replacement through Nineteenth-Century Physiology
- Area of Research: With training in both history (BA) and biomedical science (BSc), my research focusses on the history and philosophy of experimental physiology in the nineteenth-cenutry. My graduate honours thesis engaged with the theoretical work of Thomas Kuhn, John Dupré and Michel Foucault to understand how hormones were conceived by physiologists as therapeutic agents capable of treating wide-ranging and general deficiencies of the body. I examined the experimental records of French physiologist Charles Brown-Séquard, whose work has never been fully reconciled by the dominant scientific narrative which holds that hormones are physico-chemical entities that were 'discovered' in 1905.
