Dr Fay Bound Alberti

Dr Fay Bound Alberti is Lecturer in History at the University of Lancaster, and Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. She has researched and published widely on many aspects of the history of emotions and medicine, as well as the themes of gender and subjectivity between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries.

Her most recent publications include Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950 (Palgrave, 2006) and Matters of the Heart: Locating Emotions in Medical and Cultural History (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Her current research explores the history of skin disease and emotions between the 18th and 20th centuries.