Stigma, Women’s Health, and Reproduction

Dr. Sara Press is a postdoctoral fellow in Harvard's Department of the History of Science. She completed her PhD in English literature and science and technology studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where she remains a UBC Public Scholar. Her work sits at the intersection of rhetoric of health and medicine, history of medicine, science and technology studies, postcolonial theory, and literary theory. Her research examines racialized and gendered health inequalities in North American society through rhetorical, historical, and literary approaches. Her work is forthcoming or has been published in Literature and Medicine, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, and Humanities. She has been a contributing writer at Columbia University's health humanities journal, Synapsis, since 2019.