Prof. Gal Ventura is a cultural art historian, and deals mainly with 19^th century French art, cultural history and socio-medical aspects of childhood, maternity, breastfeeding, pain, death and sleep. Her latest book, Maternal Breast-Feeding and Its Substitutes in Nineteenth-Century French Art, was published in 2018 by Brill. Her most recent essays have appeared in Studies in the Maternal; Journal of Social History; Design and Culture; Design for Health; Visual Resources;Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Social History of Medicine and Journal of Design History.