In May 2026, PhD candidate Christy Sher traveled to McGill University in Canada to consult Japanese medical materials relevant to her dissertation research.

During her visit to the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, Christy met with Head Librarian Dr. Mary Hague-Yearl to examine the library’s recent acquisition of a male dissection scroll from early modern Japan. She also studied a dissection scroll depicting a female cadaver, along with other Japanese medical manuscripts and illustrated books in the Osler collection. These two dissection scrolls are the focus of Christy’s second dissertation chapter, “Between the Knife and the Brush: Physician-Painter Collaboration and Anatomical Knowledge in Edo-Period Japan.”