Alison M Downham Moore
Biographic Data
| ID | 2099571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison M Downham Moore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison M Downham |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore |
| SIGNATURE | MOORE A M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Research Fellow, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aphrodisiacs in the global history of medical thought
The study of aphrodisiacs is an overlooked area of global history which this article seeks to remedy by considering how such substances were commercially traded and how medical knowledge of them was exchanged globally between 1600 and 1920. We show that the concept of ‘aphrodisiacs’ as a new nominal category of pharmacological substances came to be valued and defined in early modern Latin, English, Dutch, Swiss, and French medical sources in rela…
Foucault, Early Christian Ideas of Genitalia, and the History of Sexuality
Temporal Layering in the Long Conceptual History of Sexual Medicine: Reading Koselleck with Foucault
This paper reflects on the challenges of writing long conceptual histories of sexual medicine, drawing on the approaches of Michel Foucault and of Reinhart Koselleck. Foucault's statements about nineteenth-century rupture considered alongside his later-life emphasis on long conceptual continuities implied something similar to Koselleck's own accommodation of different kinds of historical inheritances expressed as multiple 'temporal layers.' The l…
Aphrodisiacs in the global history of medical thought
The study of aphrodisiacs is an overlooked area of global history which this article seeks to remedy by considering how such substances were commercially traded and how medical knowledge of them was exchanged globally between 1600 and 1920. We show that the concept of ‘aphrodisiacs’ as a new nominal category of pharmacological substances came to be valued and defined in early modern Latin, English, Dutch, Swiss, and French medical sources in rela…
Foucault, Early Christian Ideas of Genitalia, and the History of Sexuality
Temporal Layering in the Long Conceptual History of Sexual Medicine: Reading Koselleck with Foucault
This paper reflects on the challenges of writing long conceptual histories of sexual medicine, drawing on the approaches of Michel Foucault and of Reinhart Koselleck. Foucault's statements about nineteenth-century rupture considered alongside his later-life emphasis on long conceptual continuities implied something similar to Koselleck's own accommodation of different kinds of historical inheritances expressed as multiple 'temporal layers.' The l…
Foucault, Early Christian Ideas of Genitalia, and the History of Sexuality
Temporal Layering in the Long Conceptual History of Sexual Medicine: Reading Koselleck with Foucault
This paper reflects on the challenges of writing long conceptual histories of sexual medicine, drawing on the approaches of Michel Foucault and of Reinhart Koselleck. Foucault's statements about nineteenth-century rupture considered alongside his later-life emphasis on long conceptual continuities implied something similar to Koselleck's own accommodation of different kinds of historical inheritances expressed as multiple 'temporal layers.' The l…
Aphrodisiacs in the global history of medical thought
The study of aphrodisiacs is an overlooked area of global history which this article seeks to remedy by considering how such substances were commercially traded and how medical knowledge of them was exchanged globally between 1600 and 1920. We show that the concept of ‘aphrodisiacs’ as a new nominal category of pharmacological substances came to be valued and defined in early modern Latin, English, Dutch, Swiss, and French medical sources in rela…
Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Alternative medicine (1 works)