Lauren Kassell

Name:	Lauren Kassell
Affiliation:	Pembroke College
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• Medicine, astrology, alchemy and magic in early modern England
• Medicine, astrology, alchemy and magic in early modern England

Talks organised by Lauren Kassell

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• The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century
• Birth, fate, and Roman futures
• Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image
• Renaissance eugenics
• Gender and generation in premodern Europe
• The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain
• The first Egyptian society
• Bodies diverged: cross-cultural translation of physiological knowledge in early modern Eurasia
• Learning medicine by the book: reading and writing surgical manuals in early modern London
• A question of balance? Thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe
• Smell and 18th-century medicine: 'powerful and active atoms'?
• Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine
• Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine
• Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion
• Pain and physiological processes in sixteenth-century medical texts from Mexico and Spain
• Slaying (or at least taming) a dreadful monster: Louis de Serres' treatise of 1625 for women suffering from infertility
• Sleep piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households
• Knowing numbers, counting men: paper technology and manpower in the eighteenth century
• Generation, demons and disease: rethinking gender in the Denham exorcisms, 1585–86
• Individual complexion and personalized care in medieval medicine
• Joachim Wtewael and the human body
• The state of the environment: public health and technology in Renaissance Genoa
• Childless communities: early medieval monasteries and the history of (in)fertility
• The craft of healing, city guilds and vernacular print: Hieronymus Brunschwig's medical manuals, c. 1500
• Marriage, mourning and martyrdom: the history of an 18th-century English bed-sheet
• Reading Vesalius 700 times: the problem of generation and the reception history of De humani corporis fabrica
• From Petite Chimie to industrial chemistry: insecticides in France from the Old Regime to the Industrial Revolution (1750–1830)
• Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England
• The foreigner's disease: global perspectives on syphilis in early modernity
• Graeco-Arabic science in medieval Jewish culture: evidence from the Cambridge Genizah collections
• The seed you need: generation, reproduction and female orgasm in medieval Islamic medicine
• A literary history of medicine: the world's earliest history of medicine, composed in Syria by the physician and poet Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah (d. 1270)
• Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam
• Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients
• Rethinking the one-sex body: sex, gender and medicine in the medieval world
• Rethinking the one-sex body: sex, gender and medicine in the medieval world
• On the political use of physiognomy around 1500
• Locked in colour: doctors and the bite of the tarantula
• The 'consultations' of Dr William Cullen (1710–1790): creating a digital edition
• Malthus and the South Sea
• Physic and divinity: the case of Dr John Downes (1626–1694)
• Casta paintings and the colonial body
• Patterns of medical practice in urban and rural England, c.1500–1720: a case-study of the South West
• Medicine and learned magic in the late middle ages
• Menstrual time and the blood of stigmata: Catherine Cadiere and Father Girard, an 18th-century menstrual cause célèbre
• John Graunt and the health of children in mid-17th-century London
• From the individual to the collective: changing ideas of complexion in the Italian health-advice literature of the long 16th century
• Polite and excrement labour? Sanitary services in London c.1650–c.1830
• Gendering Renaissance medicine: vicarious menstruation and anomalous bleeding
• The lived experience of fertility problems in the 18th century
• 'No good fruit': attitudes toward infertility in colonial New England
• Mortars, exotic drugs, and a battle for expertise: Verona 1561–1566
• Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared
• Catholic activists, medical authority and the limiting of peasant choice in rural Brittany, 1650–1750
• The 'miracle of childbirth': the portrayal of parturient women in medieval miracle narratives
• The birth of biopower in eighteenth-century Germany
• Medical knowledge and enlightened war: British and French military medicine in the eighteenth century
• Rulers, clocks and common sense: metrology as a key to Wittgenstein's On Certainty
• The two cultures controversy: science, literature and cultural politics in postwar Britain
• Experimental religion and experimental natural philosophy in early modern England
• Insanity, divine madness and prophecy in Jung's self-experimentation
• Causation, models of disease and epidemiology
• Fusing modern art and science: Marian Dale Scott, Hans Selye, and the visualisation of life
• On recent work on faultless disagreement
• How (not) to read the advertisements of oculists: records, testimonies and the strategy of personal encounters in the early 18th century
• Consensus and disagreement in science
• The radical moisture between theology and medicine (13th–14th centuries)
• Scientia sexualis versus ars erotica: Foucault, van Gulik, Needham, Orientalism
• 'A falling star' – the sovereign self in Otto Weininger
• 'Atomism' and the criterion of truth: Asclepiades of Bithynia's appropriations of Epicureanism
• Narratives in Greek mathematics?
• History and philosophy of regulatory science: the case of pharmaceuticals
• Between law and astronomy: Kepler, Galileo and the uses of witnessing
• Gynaecological fragments in a pragmatic archbishop's handbook: the Old English 'Formation of the Foetus' in context
• Thinking 'through numbers'
• Making the invisible visible: the hidden history of families, schools, civil rights, media and science in the production of learning disabilities
• Imagined experiments: molecular modelling and make-believe
• Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary
• Phlogiston revisited: an argument for scientific pluralism
• Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark
• Where does a claim for the necessity of historical knowledge lead in the human sciences?
• Perceptions of health in Roman Spain: preliminary research on the archaeological material from the Province
• Early-modern investigations on the nature of tarantism from Tommaso Campanella to Antonio Vallisneri
• The shape of the conceptual
• Towards a public health consciousness in medical science: plague in sixteenth-century Italy
• A Roman engineer’s tales
• The new riddle of causation
• Slavery in the cabinet of curiosities: Hans Sloane's Atlantic world
• The 'mechanical hypothesis' in Ancient Greek natural philosophy
• What is an organism?
• Rolling up the history of a science: Greek musical theorists on their predecessors
• The politics and physiology of laughter in eighteenth-century France: the Saint-Aubins’ Livre des Culs
• Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century
• Contracting the philosopher’s stone: fraud, risk and profit in early modern alchemy
• Rival theories of the aerofoil: 1909-1926
• Thatcher, scientist
• Natural purposes, Kantian analogies and environmental ethics
• Biographical medicine: London consultants explain disease
• Spinoza on law and sovereignty
• Through the eyes of a seventeenth-century physician: reassessing John Webster
• 'A year of resurrection, a year of grotesque horror': heart transplants and the media in 1968
• Are there Lewis conventions?
• Panacea's daughters: gentlewomen healers and experiential knowledge in early modern Germany
• Interrogating the prehistory of Caesarean section
• Practical reasoning and inference
• 'Sybil' in particulars and generals: inductive logic and Victorian narrative
• Fraud, sorcery and medicine in the 1540s: the double life of Gregory Wisdom