Joy Harvey

Joy Harvey
Born	Joy Dorothy Harvey 1934
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupation	Historian

Joy Dorothy Harvey (born 1934) is an American historian of science.

Life

Harvey gained a PhD from Harvard University in 1983. She has been an associate editor of the Darwin Correspondence Project, and written a biography of Clémence Royer, Darwin's first French translator. She and Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie collaborated on the multi-volume Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science.

Works

• 'Medicine and politics: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Paris Commune', Dialectical anthropology, Vol. 15 (1990), p. 107–117
• l'autre côté du miroir (The Other Side of the Mirror): French Neurophysiology and English Interpretations, in Claude Debru, Jean Gayon and Jean-Francois Picard, eds., Les sciences biologiques et médicales en France, 1920-1950, 1994.
• 'Charles Darwins "Selective strategies": die französische versus die englische Reaktion', Rezeption von Evolutionstheorien im 19. Jahrhundert, 1995, pp.225–61
• Almost a man of genius: Clémence Royer, feminism, and nineteenth-century science. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997
• 'History of Science, History and Science, and Natural Science: Undergraduate Teaching of the History of Science at Harvard, 1938-1970', Isis, Vol. 90 (1999), pp.S270-S294.
• (ed. with Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie) The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. New York: Routledge, 2000
• 'Darwin's ‘Angels’: the Women Correspondents of Charles Darwin', in Intellectual History Review, Vol. 19, Issue 2 (2009), pp. 197–210.