Mark S Dawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1647985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark S Dawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark S |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawson |
| SIGNATURE | DAWSON M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Australian National University , Canberra |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0632-0243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What’s in a Name? The Inoculation of Smallpox in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
The translation of smallpox inoculation from the Ottoman Empire to Britain is typically said to have depended upon social and medical luminaries—especially Mary Wortley Montagu and Hans Sloane—overcoming ethnocentric cum ethical objections to the protocol’s adoption. Yet it remains puzzling that scores of people during the 1720s took the seemingly counterintuitive step of deliberate infection with the virus before there was much evidence of reduc…
Peter Elmer. Medicine in an Age of Revolution
Astrology and Human Variation in Early Modern England
Processes for the identification of criminal suspects tell us a great deal about wider cultural assumptions and social prejudices regarding somatic difference; its causes, relative degree, and consequence. If early modern Europeans had something approaching a forensic science, it was astrology, which has recently garnered renewed attention from historians of ideas. Rather than assume astrology's seventeenth-century decline in the face of revoluti…
First Impressions: Newspaper Advertisements and Early Modern English Body Imaging, 1651-1750
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Histories and Texts: Refiguring the Diary of Samuel Pepys
The following attempts a modest reconsideration of one of the most well-known early modern Englishmen, Samuel Pepys. More precisely, the article suggests that much closer attention needs to be paid to Pepys's textuality (not sexuality). In modern times, his diary has achieved canonical status to the detriment of other texts scripted in unison with the famed Cambridge manuscript, now meticulously transcribed. Tracing the multiple textual transacti…
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1987. Volume 50
Histories and Texts: Refiguring the Diary of Samuel Pepys
The following attempts a modest reconsideration of one of the most well-known early modern Englishmen, Samuel Pepys. More precisely, the article suggests that much closer attention needs to be paid to Pepys's textuality (not sexuality). In modern times, his diary has achieved canonical status to the detriment of other texts scripted in unison with the famed Cambridge manuscript, now meticulously transcribed. Tracing the multiple textual transacti…
First Impressions: Newspaper Advertisements and Early Modern English Body Imaging, 1651-1750
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Astrology and Human Variation in Early Modern England
Processes for the identification of criminal suspects tell us a great deal about wider cultural assumptions and social prejudices regarding somatic difference; its causes, relative degree, and consequence. If early modern Europeans had something approaching a forensic science, it was astrology, which has recently garnered renewed attention from historians of ideas. Rather than assume astrology's seventeenth-century decline in the face of revoluti…
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1987. Volume 50
Histories and Texts: Refiguring the Diary of Samuel Pepys
The following attempts a modest reconsideration of one of the most well-known early modern Englishmen, Samuel Pepys. More precisely, the article suggests that much closer attention needs to be paid to Pepys's textuality (not sexuality). In modern times, his diary has achieved canonical status to the detriment of other texts scripted in unison with the famed Cambridge manuscript, now meticulously transcribed. Tracing the multiple textual transacti…
First Impressions: Newspaper Advertisements and Early Modern English Body Imaging, 1651-1750
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Astrology and Human Variation in Early Modern England
Processes for the identification of criminal suspects tell us a great deal about wider cultural assumptions and social prejudices regarding somatic difference; its causes, relative degree, and consequence. If early modern Europeans had something approaching a forensic science, it was astrology, which has recently garnered renewed attention from historians of ideas. Rather than assume astrology's seventeenth-century decline in the face of revoluti…
Peter Elmer. Medicine in an Age of Revolution
What’s in a Name? The Inoculation of Smallpox in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
The translation of smallpox inoculation from the Ottoman Empire to Britain is typically said to have depended upon social and medical luminaries—especially Mary Wortley Montagu and Hans Sloane—overcoming ethnocentric cum ethical objections to the protocol’s adoption. Yet it remains puzzling that scores of people during the 1720s took the seemingly counterintuitive step of deliberate infection with the virus before there was much evidence of reduc…
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