Katharine Park is a Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at

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. She specializes in the history of

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, sexuality, and the female body in

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and

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Europe, as well as categories and practices of experience and observation in the

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. Park was awarded a

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in 1974. She received her M.Phil in the Combined Historical Studies of the Renaissance at the

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, and earned a Ph.D. in the History of Science at Harvard in 1981.

Awards

''Wonders of Nature,'' which she co-authored with

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, won the

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of the

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for the best book in the history of science in 1999; the book was translated into

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and

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. In 2002, Park was elected to the

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. Her most recent book, ''Secrets of Women'', won the

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in 2007. In 2021 she was awarded the

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.Dan David Prize 2021
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Works

*''Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence'', Princeton University Press, 1985;
*''Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750'' with

, Zone Books, 1998, *''Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection'', Zone Books, 2006, *

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Park's history of science page
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