Dr. Andrea Tone

Biography

Andrea Tone is a historian whose scholarship reflects a commitment to interdisciplinary public history. Working within archives, museums, and professional societies, she has strived to make her research accessible to broader audiences outside of academia. Her five books include 'Devices and Desires,' which inspired an Emmy-award-winning PBS documentary named one of the books of the year by The Washington Post. Her research has been featured across various media, including CBC and NPR. In 2011, she was awarded the American Psychiatric Association’s Benjamin Rush Award for her contributions to the history of psychiatry. In 2017, she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Professor Tone’s research interests explore twentieth-century American medical history, particularly the histories of gender and sexuality, psychiatry, pharmacology, and epistemology. A transcendent theme in her work is the intersection of patient experience and institutional power, framing the politics of social studies. She is currently completing a monograph on CIA involvement in Cold War psychiatry, funded in part by an Open Operating Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and is also researching the history of female sexuality and the medicalization of beauty, women’s encounters with pregnancy, and the pathology from the 1950s to the present.

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