Alison Winter
Alison Winter (born November 19, 1965 in Connecticut , † June 22, 2016 in Chicago ) was an American historian of science .
Winter received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1993 .
Her research focused on the history of medicine , British modernism and the Victorian era, and the relationship between human and legal science .
Her best-known writings are Mesmerized : powers of mind in Victorian Britain from 1998 and Memory: fragments of a modern history from 2011.
Winter died in June 2016 at the age of 50 at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago of complications from a brain tumor .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alison Winter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Alison Winter in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about Alison Winter in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ^ Profile of Alison Winter ( July 29, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive ) on the University of Chicago website
- ↑ Chicago Tribune: Alison Winter, University of Chicago historian, dies at 50. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Winter, Alison |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 2016 |
| Place of death | Chicago |