Alison Li

Alison Li is an historian of science and medicine who writes about medical research, hormones and the culture in which they were shaped. She gained a feel for hormone research as a summer student while studying for her BSc in biochemistry at McGill University. Discovering that she preferred digging in libraries and archives, she earned an MA and PhD in the history and philosophy of science and technology at the University of Toronto. She held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at York University, Toronto. 

Alison is the author of a biography of J.B. Collip, one of the co-discoverers of insulin, and Wondrous Transformations, the story of Dr. Harry Benjamin, the endocrinologist and sexologist best known for his pioneering work in transgender medicine. 

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