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Alison Winter (19 November 1965 – 22 June 2016) was an American academic. Biography. Born on 19 November 1965 in New Haven, Connecticut, Winter spent her early childhood in Bonn, Germany, and attended high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where her father taught mathematics at the University of Michigan.
Jun 24, 2016 · Alison Winter, a historian of science and medicine whose book on memory won the University of Chicago Press’s top honor, died Wednesday of a brain tumor. She was 50 years old. Winter, AB’87, was a professor of history whose research often focused in areas of science and medicine that were unorthodox and less traveled.
Tracing the cultural and scientific history of our understanding of memory, Winter explores early metaphors that likened memory to a filing cabinet; later, she shows, that cabinet was replaced by the image of a reel of film, ever available for playback.
Aug 25, 2016 · Alison Winter was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on 19 November 1965 and went to high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, although she spent her early childhood in Bonn, Germany, where her mathematician father was carrying out postdoctoral research.
Jun 30, 2016 · Alison Winter (1965–2016), historian of the mind, as well as professor of history, the conceptual and historical studies of science, and the college at the University of Chicago, passed away last week from complications related to a brain tumor.
Dec 1, 2011 · The author, Alison Winter runs through a series of beliefs accepted by the psychiatric community, about memory: Including the use of truth serums. traumatic events recalled in war, Penfield Wilder's ideas that memories were permanent and lodged locally in neuron trails, the Bridey Murphy story of a recollection of previous lives ...
Jun 30, 2016 · University of Chicago professor Alison Winter was a historian of science and medicine with a gift for focusing on unorthodox subjects and writing about them in compelling ways.
