Noémi Tousignant

Associate Professor · London’s Global University

Noémi Tousignant is an anthropologist and historian of science and public health. She has previously held postdoctoral positions at the University of Montreal, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the University of Cambridge. Her work has focused on pain measurement technologies and clinical trials in mid-20th century United States, as well as on pharmacists and pharmaceuticals in colonial Vietnam and Senegal. She co-edited Traces of the Future (Intellect 2016), which examines the traces and remnants of medical science in Africa, and has also contributed to special issues on materiality, temporality, and the ethos of health and scientific work in Science as Culture, Africa, and the Canadian Journal of African Studies. Her other articles in Social History of Medicine, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Social Studies of Science explore pharmaceuticals, laboratories, and research on medicinal plants in Africa. Her book, Edges of Exposure (Duke 2018), won the Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science in 2020.