Education

  • A.B. in Philosophy, magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1997
  • Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2006

Field of Interest

Medical and Health Humanities; Visuality; Death Studies, Animal Studies, History and Philosophy of Medicine and Science, European Philosophy (especially 15th-18th centuries), Philosophy and Literature

Selection of Recent Publications

  • Gideon Manning and Anna Marie Roos, eds., Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar (New York: Springer, 2023)
  • Cynthia Klestinec and Gideon Manning, “The Good Death in Early Modern Europe” in History Compass, Vol. 22, 8, pp. 1-8, August 2024.
  • Gideon Manning and Stephen A. Geller, “Evolving Images of Tuberculosis: Seeing and Understanding an Ancient, Endemic Disease” in Biomedical Visions: Epistemology, Medicine and Art Practice, ed. A. Freeborn and E. Hughes (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2025), pp. 157-189.
  • Gideon Manning, “The Medical Provenance of Cartesian Illustrations: History, Action and Use” in Cartesian Images: Picturing Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Age, ed. M. Mantovani and D. Cellamare (Leiden: Brill, 2025), pp. 392-420.

 

Selection of Current Professional Activities:

  • President, Southern California Society for the History of Medicine
  • Books Review Editor, Annals of Science
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Early Modern Studies
  • Board Member, History of Medicine Advisory Group, Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Garden
  • Project Collaborator, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
  • Project Lead, Harvey 2028