Rachel N. Ponce

University of Chicago
Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
United States History

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I am Ph.D candidate at the University of Chicago in Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science and in United States History. I work primarily on the history of medicine in the nineteenth century United States. My dissertation examines medical, legal, and popular conceptions of madness in the United States from roughly 1800-1880. I am particularly interested in the transmission, acceptance, and reification of knowledge between epistemic cultures, and in historical epistemology more generally.