Mary E Fissell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1113371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary E Fissell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary E |
| FAMILY NAME | Fissell |
| SIGNATURE | FISSELL M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4141-3966 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction
Over the past year, historians of medicine have found our discipline invested with a new sense of relevance. In trying to make sense of epidemics past and present, many of us have been substantially influenced by Charles Rosenberg’s 1989 Daedalus essay, “What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective.” Writing in the middle of another unfolding global pandemic, Rosenberg suggested that all epidemics possessed similar forms of social choreogr…
A Little Bit Pregnant? Productive Ambiguity and Fertility Research
Fertility researchers rely upon a simple binary: pregnant versus not pregnant. However, this conceptualization does not capture many women's experiences, both historically and in numerous settings today. We suggest that pregnancy status may be a much more ambiguous state, and that such ambiguity is often productive for women. Building a culturally sensitive understanding of what we are calling "productive ambiguity" can foster more rigorous studi…
Introduction
Over the past year, historians of medicine have found our discipline invested with a new sense of relevance. In trying to make sense of epidemics past and present, many of us have been substantially influenced by Charles Rosenberg's 1989 Daedalus essay, "What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective." Writing in the middle of another unfolding global pandemic, Rosenberg suggested that all epidemics possessed similar forms of social choreogr…
How I Learned to Love Clickers
Remaking the Maternal Body in England, 1680–1730
Artisans of the body in early modern Italy
Introduction
Women played substantial roles in health and healing in medieval and early-modern Europe. They have been undercounted in studies that rely upon occupational labels, but when we look at caregiving and bodywork, we can see women providing a broad range of services. Although women often healed in domestic settings, neither female patients nor practitioners should be considered in isolation from larger market forces that shaped men's healing work
Book Notes
Book Notes Reviewed by Randall M. Packard Mary Elizabeth Fissell W. F. Bynum and Helen Bynum, eds. Dictionary of Medical Biography. Vol. 1, A–B; Vol. 2, C–G; Vol. 3, H–L; Vol. 4, M–R; Vol. 5, S–Z. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. v + 1,415 pp. Ill. $749.95 (set) (ISBN-set: 0-313-32877-3; ISBN-Vol. 1: 0-313-32878-1; ISBN-Vol. 2: 0-313-32879-X; ISBN-Vol. 3: 0-313-32880-3; ISBN-Vol. 4: 0-313-32881-1; ISBN-Vol. 5: 0-313-32882-X). This collecti…
Disease of Virgins
Vernacular Bodies
Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London
Reviewed by: Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London: Patronage, Physicians, and Irregular Practitioners, 1550-1640 Mary E. Fissell Margaret Pelling with Frances White . Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London: Patronage, Physicians, and Irregular Practitioners, 1550-1640. Oxford Studies in Social History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. xvi + 410 pp. Ill. $95.00 (0-19-925780-9). Margaret Pelling has written a book that will change the ways in w…
Book Notes
Leslie A. Clarkson and E. Margaret Crawford, eds. Famine and Disease in Ireland. 5 vols. Vol. 1: General Introduction; William Robert Wills Wilde, The Census of Ireland for the Year 1851, part V: Tables of Deaths (1856). Vol. 2: Charles E. Trevelyan, The Irish Crisis (1848); The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science (1849) (excerpts). Vol. 3: Francis Barker and John Cheyne, An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Fever lately E…
Book Notes
Christoph Friedrich and Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke, eds. Apotheker und Universität. Die Vorträge der Pharmaziehistorischen Biennale in Leipzig vom 12. bis 14. Mai 2000 und der Gedenkveranstaltung "Wiegleb 2000" zum 200. Todestag von Johann Christian Wiegleb (1732–1800), 15 und 16 März 2000 in Bad Langensalza. Veröffentlichungen zur Pharmaziegeschichte, no. 2. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002. 310 pp. Ill. €26.00, Sw. Fr. 41.…
Book Notes
Books Notes Reviewed by The Editors Nikolaj Serikoff. Arabic Medical Manuscripts of the Wellcome Library: Descriptive Catalogue of the Haddad Collection. Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 6. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xiii + 564 pp. Ill. $236.00, €175.00 (90-04-14798-5). This catalog brings together the Wellcome's collection of Arabic medical manuscripts in a new way: it includes many incomplete and anonymous manuscripts that were excluded by the f…
Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France
Journal Article Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France Get access Mary E. Fissell Mary E. Fissell The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 1, April 2006, Pages 172–174, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkj025 Published: 01 April 2006
Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England (review)
Reviewed by: Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England Mary E. Fissell Caroline Bicks . Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. xii + 211 pp. Ill. $69.95 (0-7546-0938-3). In examining the representations of midwives in Shakespeare's plays, Caroline Bicks tells us about more than just Shakespeare: she has intriguing suggestions about the cultural roles of midwives i…
Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England (review)
Reviewed by: Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England Mary E. Fissell Elizabeth Lane Furdell . Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2002. xiii + 282 pp. Ill. $80.00, £50.00 (1-58046-119-0). For the past few decades, the history of the book has been a growth industry for early-modernists. Elizabeth Furdell brings some of this rich scholarship to bear upon medical books. Unfortunate…
The Politics of Reproduction in the English Reformation
Practices and beliefs surrounding women's reproductive bodies, in particular those concerning childbirth and reproduction, had religious signi.cance in early modern England and were sites of reform in the Protestant Reformation. In this essay I suggest that the reimagining of women's reproductive bodies was a crucial part of the cultural changes that made England a Protestant nation
Hairy Women and Naked Truths
Mary E. Fissell, Hairy Women and Naked Truths: Gender and the Politics of Knowledge in "Aristotle's Masterpiece", The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 1, Sexuality in Early America (Jan., 2003), pp. 43-74
Making a Medical Living
Anne Digby reminds us that while physicians in the past treated patients, invented new medical theories, compounded medicines, and made discoveries about the human body, they also made a living. One hundred and fifty years ago, that last was not an easy task. For some practitioners who managed to capture a wealthy set of patients, the living was plentiful: for attending Harriet Brudenell, daughter of the Earl of Cardigan, during her fatal illness…
A Question of Identity
Imagining Vermin in Early Modern England
1 John Hopkins University
Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor
Medicine and the Five Senses . W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter
Gender and Generation
A Little Bit Pregnant? Productive Ambiguity and Fertility Research
Fertility researchers rely upon a simple binary: pregnant versus not pregnant. However, this conceptualization does not capture many women's experiences, both historically and in numerous settings today. We suggest that pregnancy status may be a much more ambiguous state, and that such ambiguity is often productive for women. Building a culturally sensitive understanding of what we are calling "productive ambiguity" can foster more rigorous studi…
Imagining Vermin in Early Modern England
1 John Hopkins University
Gender and Generation
The ‘Sick and Drooping Poor’ in Eighteenth-Century Bristol and its Region
The Politics of Reproduction in the English Reformation
Practices and beliefs surrounding women's reproductive bodies, in particular those concerning childbirth and reproduction, had religious signi.cance in early modern England and were sites of reform in the Protestant Reformation. In this essay I suggest that the reimagining of women's reproductive bodies was a crucial part of the cultural changes that made England a Protestant nation
Hairy Women and Naked Truths
Mary E. Fissell, Hairy Women and Naked Truths: Gender and the Politics of Knowledge in "Aristotle's Masterpiece", The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 1, Sexuality in Early America (Jan., 2003), pp. 43-74
Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France
Journal Article Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France Get access Mary E. Fissell Mary E. Fissell The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 1, April 2006, Pages 172–174, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkj025 Published: 01 April 2006
No Magic Bullet
No Magic Bullet
To Toil the Livelong Day
The Making of the Modern Body
The ‘Sick and Drooping Poor’ in Eighteenth-Century Bristol and its Region
Death, Dissection, and the Destitute . Ruth Richardson
Health in the city
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Patients, Power, and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
Introduction 2. Everyone their own physician 3. The marketplace of medicine 4. charity universal? 5. The client 6. The abdication of the governors 7. Surgeons and the medicalization of the hospital 8. The patient's perspective 9. The reform of popular medicine 10. Conclusions Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
Medicine and the Five Senses . W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter
Gender and Generation
Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor
Imagining Vermin in Early Modern England
1 John Hopkins University
Making a Medical Living
Anne Digby reminds us that while physicians in the past treated patients, invented new medical theories, compounded medicines, and made discoveries about the human body, they also made a living. One hundred and fifty years ago, that last was not an easy task. For some practitioners who managed to capture a wealthy set of patients, the living was plentiful: for attending Harriet Brudenell, daughter of the Earl of Cardigan, during her fatal illness…
A Question of Identity
Hairy Women and Naked Truths
Mary E. Fissell, Hairy Women and Naked Truths: Gender and the Politics of Knowledge in "Aristotle's Masterpiece", The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 1, Sexuality in Early America (Jan., 2003), pp. 43-74
The Politics of Reproduction in the English Reformation
Practices and beliefs surrounding women's reproductive bodies, in particular those concerning childbirth and reproduction, had religious signi.cance in early modern England and were sites of reform in the Protestant Reformation. In this essay I suggest that the reimagining of women's reproductive bodies was a crucial part of the cultural changes that made England a Protestant nation
Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England (review)
Reviewed by: Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England Mary E. Fissell Caroline Bicks . Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. xii + 211 pp. Ill. $69.95 (0-7546-0938-3). In examining the representations of midwives in Shakespeare's plays, Caroline Bicks tells us about more than just Shakespeare: she has intriguing suggestions about the cultural roles of midwives i…
Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England (review)
Reviewed by: Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England Mary E. Fissell Elizabeth Lane Furdell . Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2002. xiii + 282 pp. Ill. $80.00, £50.00 (1-58046-119-0). For the past few decades, the history of the book has been a growth industry for early-modernists. Elizabeth Furdell brings some of this rich scholarship to bear upon medical books. Unfortunate…
Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London
Reviewed by: Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London: Patronage, Physicians, and Irregular Practitioners, 1550-1640 Mary E. Fissell Margaret Pelling with Frances White . Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London: Patronage, Physicians, and Irregular Practitioners, 1550-1640. Oxford Studies in Social History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. xvi + 410 pp. Ill. $95.00 (0-19-925780-9). Margaret Pelling has written a book that will change the ways in w…
Book Notes
Leslie A. Clarkson and E. Margaret Crawford, eds. Famine and Disease in Ireland. 5 vols. Vol. 1: General Introduction; William Robert Wills Wilde, The Census of Ireland for the Year 1851, part V: Tables of Deaths (1856). Vol. 2: Charles E. Trevelyan, The Irish Crisis (1848); The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science (1849) (excerpts). Vol. 3: Francis Barker and John Cheyne, An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Fever lately E…
Book Notes
Christoph Friedrich and Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke, eds. Apotheker und Universität. Die Vorträge der Pharmaziehistorischen Biennale in Leipzig vom 12. bis 14. Mai 2000 und der Gedenkveranstaltung "Wiegleb 2000" zum 200. Todestag von Johann Christian Wiegleb (1732–1800), 15 und 16 März 2000 in Bad Langensalza. Veröffentlichungen zur Pharmaziegeschichte, no. 2. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002. 310 pp. Ill. €26.00, Sw. Fr. 41.…
Book Notes
Books Notes Reviewed by The Editors Nikolaj Serikoff. Arabic Medical Manuscripts of the Wellcome Library: Descriptive Catalogue of the Haddad Collection. Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 6. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xiii + 564 pp. Ill. $236.00, €175.00 (90-04-14798-5). This catalog brings together the Wellcome's collection of Arabic medical manuscripts in a new way: it includes many incomplete and anonymous manuscripts that were excluded by the f…
Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France
Journal Article Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France Get access Mary E. Fissell Mary E. Fissell The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 1, April 2006, Pages 172–174, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkj025 Published: 01 April 2006
Disease of Virgins
Vernacular Bodies
Introduction
Women played substantial roles in health and healing in medieval and early-modern Europe. They have been undercounted in studies that rely upon occupational labels, but when we look at caregiving and bodywork, we can see women providing a broad range of services. Although women often healed in domestic settings, neither female patients nor practitioners should be considered in isolation from larger market forces that shaped men's healing work
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