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Selina Hurley

Curator of Medicine at the Science Museum

Selina Hurley is Curator of Medicine at the Science Museum, where she led on the Medicine and Treatments gallery. Her work focuses on the intersection of health, disease, therapeutics and materia medica throughout the modern period. She was co-editor of, and contributor to, The Medicine Cabinet (Carlton, 2019), and contributor to Medicine: An Imperfect Science (Scala, 2019). Hurley also sits on the advisory panel for Thalidomide Stories: An Oral History of Thalidomide Survivors, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and is Treasurer for the British Society for the History of Pharmacy