Sally Frampton is Humanities and Healthcare Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. Her publications have focused on the history of surgery and the development of medical journalism in the nineteenth century, and include her monograph Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy (Palgrave, 2018).

Jennifer Wallis is historian of medicine and psychiatry at Imperial College London, UK. Her publications include Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices (Palgrave, 2017) and the co-authored volume Anxious Times: Medicine & Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019).