Dr. Fay Bound Alberti is a writer and cultural historian who specialises in the study of medicine, emotions and gender. She has lectured at several UK universities, and has published on many aspects of early modern medicine and culture in major journals, including the Lancet, History Workshop Journal and Isis. She has also contributed to media debates on the history of medicine, including BBC Radio 4's "In our Time with Melvyn Bragg," and "The Eureka Years with Adam Hart-Davis." Previous publications include Medicine, Emotion and Disease (Palgrave, 2006). Fay is currently Senior Research Fellow in History at Queen Mary University of London, and Honorary Research Associate at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. She is also Policy Advisor for the Arcadia Fund, a charitable trust that protects endangered treasures of nature and culture.

"Alberti does, however, tell a fascinating story. Her account of the wider medical changes would be useful and accessible undergraduate reading, while her analysis of the mind-body relationship should be required reading for anyone working on minds, emotions, or bodies. Alberti rightly notes that historians have perpetuated the twentieth-century scientific boundaries between mind and body, meaning 'that the history of neuroscience need not be connected with the history of cardiology'. Alberti's thought-provoking study makes not only a compelling case for scholarly reintegration of the mind and body but also highlights the research riches that it provides."--Journal of British Studies