Joy Dorothy Harvey (born 1934) is an American historian of science.

Life

Harvey gained a PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1983. She has been an associate editor of the

Darwin Correspondence Project The British naturalist Charles Darwin corresponded with his extended family and with an extraordinarily wide range of people from all over the world. The letters, over 15,000 in all, provide many insights on issues ranging from the origins of ...

, and written a biography of

Clémence Royer Clémence Royer (21 April 1830 – 6 February 1902) was a self-taught French scholar who lectured and wrote on economics, philosophy, science and feminism. She is best known for her controversial 1862 French translation of Charles Darwin's ' ...

, Darwin's first French translator. She and

Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie (born 1936) is an American historian of science known especially for her work on the history of women in science. She taught at Oklahoma Baptist University before becoming curator of the History of Science Collections and ...

collaborated on the multi-volume ''Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science''.Pnina G. Abir-Am
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
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', ''

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'', Vol. 90 (1999), pp.S270-S294. * (ed. with

) ''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.

References

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