Faculty

Arleen Marcia Tuchman
Professor of History
Director, Center for Medicine, Health and Society

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985

History of science and medicine; history of disease; gender and sexuality; culture and the body
Telphone: 615-322-8151 (History Dept) or 615-343-1750 (MHS)
Email: Arleen.m.tuchman@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: M 2:00-3:00, F 11:00-noon
Office: Benson Hall 110

Arleen Tuchman is a specialist in the history of science and medicine in the United States and Europe. Her research interests include the cultural history of health and disease, the rise of scientific medicine, and scientific and medical constructions of gender and sexuality. Tuchman is the author of Science, Medicine, and the State in Germany (1993) and Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D. (2006).  Her article, “Situating Gender: Marie E. Zakrzewska and the Place of Science in Women’s Medical Education,” Isis, 95: 34-57 won the 2006 History of Science Society’s Margaret W. Rossiter Prize for the best article on the history of women in science. She is currently writing a cultural history of diabetes in the United States.

Tuchmanhas received fellowships from the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the American Philosophical Society, the National Science Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. This year she holds a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to work on her latest book, tentatively titled Diabetes: A Cultural History.

Tuchman has also been directing the Center for Medicine, Health and Society since July 2006. This Center facilitates conversations and scholarly projects among research and teaching faculty who are committed to and excited about exploring links between the humanities, social sciences, and academic medicine.  The Center is also the home to an undergraduate interdisciplinary major in Medicine, Health, and Society.

Tuchman has been teaching at Vanderbilt since 1986. She has taught courses in the history of medicine, history of science, history of disease, and on scientific and medical constructions of gender, sexuality, and the body.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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