Browsing by Author "Park, Katharine"
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Bedlam in the New World: Madness, Colonialism, and a Mexican Madhouse,1567-1821
Ramos, Christina (2015-08-31)In spite of a vast and robust literature on madness and its institutions, colonial Mexico remains unchartered domain and little is known about the Hospital de San Hipólito in Mexico City, the first hospital of the Americas ... -
Between Figure and Line: Visual Transformations of Cartesian Physics, 1620-1690
Lo, Melissa Ming-Hwei (2014-06-06)Between Figure and Line: Visual Transformations of Cartesian Physics, 1620-1690 is the first sustained examination of the diagrams and illustrations that constituted the seventeenth century's new physics. When René Descartes ... -
Cadden, Laqueur, and the "One-Sex Body"
Park, Katharine (Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, 2010) -
The Death of Isabella Della Volpe: Four Eyewitness Accounts of a Postmortem Caesarean Section in 1545
Park, Katharine (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)This article provides a transcription and translation of four notarized declarations describing the events surrounding a postmortem caesarean section performed in 1545 in Vercelli, a small city in the Duchy of Savoy. After ... -
Neoclassical Medicine: Transformations in the Hippocratic Medical Tradition from Galen to the Articella.
Viniegra, Marco Antonio (2013-10-18)Neoclassical Medicine: Transformations in the -
Remembering Radcliffe
Park, Katharine; Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) -
Toxic Cures: Poisons and Medicines in Medieval China
Liu, Yan (2015-05-22)This dissertation explores the medicinal use of poisons in China from the third to the tenth century, which is when the major outlines of Chinese toxicological thought took shape. Challenging a widespread view that contrasts ... -
Women, Gender, and Utopia: The Death of Nature and the Historiography of Early Modern Science
Park, Katharine (University of Chicago Press, 2006)This essay reflects on the ambivalent reception of <i>The Death of Nature</i> among English-speaking historians of early modern science. It argues that, despite its importance, the book was mostly ignored or marginalized ...