Dr. Andrea Tone
Faculty
Social Studies of Medicine
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Tone holds the Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine. A historian by training, she has joint appointments in the Departments of SSOM and History in the Faculties of Medicine and Arts. She also holds an associate position in the Division of Transcultural Psychiatry in McGill’s Department of Psychiatry. Her scholarship explores women and health, medical technology, sexuality, psychiatry, and political economy, particularly the intersection between patient experience, cultural contexts, and technological and economic change in nineteenth and twentieth-century America. She is currently working on a project funded by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research on the CIA and Cold War Psychiatry. Her work has been featured on ABC News, CBC, PBS, the History Channel, and National Public Radio. In May 2011, she received the American Psychiatric Association’s 2011 Benjamin Rush Award for her contributions to the history of psychiatry.
Research Interest
psychiatry
Publications
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In press. “In the Matter of Rosemarie Lewis: Women and the Corporatization of Contraception.†Barbara Seaman and Laura Eldridge, The Body Politic/Dispatches from the Women’s Health Movement. (Seven Stories Press: 2008).
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In press. “Addiction by Prescription: Women and the Problem of Tranquilizers.†Barbara Seaman and Laura Eldridge, eds., The Body Politic/Dispatches form the Women’s Health Movement (Seven Stories Press: 2008)
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In press. “In the Matter of Rosemarie Lewis: Women and the Corporatization of Contraception.†Barbara Seaman and Laura Eldridge, The Body Politic/Dispatches from the Women’s Health Movement. (Seven Stories Press: 2008).
