Katharine Park

Biographic Data

ID3676054
NAMEKatharine Park
GIVEN NAMESKatharine
FAMILY NAMEPark
SIGNATUREPARK K
AFFILIATIONSWellesley College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS88
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX5

  • The Myth of the "One-Sex" Body

    Katharine ParkARTICLEIsis2023Cited by: 1References: 17

    In Making Sex (1990), Thomas Laqueur argued for a dramatic shift in Western medical understandings of sex difference circa 1800, falsely claiming that before then women were generally understood as imperfect men, their genitals trapped inside their bodies by their lack of complexional heat. In fact, the period before 1800 saw the coexistence of competing traditions relating to genital anatomy and function, in which Arabic medical compendia, large…

  • Medicine and Natural Philosophy: Naturalistic Traditions

    Katharine ParkCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Women and…2013

    This chapter sketches the evolution of writing on sex difference in Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew scholarship between the sixth and the late fifteenth centuries, focusing on natural philosophy and, especially, medical theory. It stresses the strong continuities in this textual tradition, which was based on the works of a small group of Greek authorities, of whom the most influential were Aristotle and Galen. At the same time, it describes differences…

  • Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion

    John Brooke, Lesley Cormack et al.BOOKGalileo Goes to Jail and Other…2009

  • The Death of Isabella Della Volpe: Four Eyewitness Accounts of a Postmortem Caesarean Section in 1545

    Katharine ParkARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2008

    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 her death in the late stages of pregnancy, Isabella della Volpe's body was opened and her fetus excised by a local barber, aided by a surgeon and a midwife. The article argues that the postmortem caesarean section was a well-kn…

  • "Response to Brian Vickers, "Francis Bacon, Feminist Historiography, and the Dominion of Nature

    Katharine ParkARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas2008Cited by: 1

    Professor Vickers extracts two or three sentences out of a long article I wrote on a completely different topic and misreads them, attributing to me statements I never made and positions I have explicitly argued against. When Francis Bacon used the metaphor of rape to refer to the Baconian natural philosopher's relationship to nature, which he did relatively infrequently, he invoked the classical, "heroic" sense of rape as the act whereby gods an…

  • The Cambridge History of Science

    Open AccessDavid C Lindberg, Ronald L Numbers et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of Science2006

    This book provides a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, c.1500–1700. Often referred to as the Scientific Revolution, this period saw major transformations in fields as diverse as anatomy and astronomy, natural history and mathematics. Articles by leading specialists describe in clear, accessible prose supplemented by extensive bibliographies, how new ideas, discoveries, and institutions shaped the ways in which nat…

  • Women, Gender, and Utopia: The Death of Natureand the Historiography of Early Modern Science

    Katharine ParkARTICLEIsis2006Cited by: 9References: 12

    This essay reflects on the ambivalent reception of The Death of Nature among English‐speaking historians of early modern science. It argues that, despite its importance, the book was mostly ignored or marginalized by these historians (as opposed to historians interested in feminist or environmental studies) for a variety of reasons. These included the special role played by the "Scientific Revolution" in the grand narrative that increasingly shap…

  • Medicine before Science: The Rational and Learned Doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment . Roger French

    Katharine ParkARTICLESpeculum2005

  • "The "Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine . Monica H. Green

    Katharine ParkARTICLESpeculum2004

  • Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance: The Case of Learned Medicine

    Open AccessKatharine ParkARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2004

    Ian Maclean. Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance: The Case of Learned Medicine. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 407 pp. index, illus. tbls. bibl. $70. ISBN: 0-521-80648-8. - Volume 57 Issue 2

  • The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (review)

    Katharine ParkARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2002

    Although it has few explicit references to the history of medicine, this excellent collection of articles, on the social and cultural history of death and of funerary and commemorative practices from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, is of great interest for historians interested in medical practice and public health in this period. Focusing on regions from Scotland to Tuscany to Transylvania, the essays, both individually and col…

  • Country medicine in the city marketplace: Snakehandlers as itinerant healers

    Open AccessKatharine ParkARTICLERenaissance Studies2001Cited by: 5

  • At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies, and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period. Erica Fudge , Ruth Gilbert , Susan Wiseman

    Katharine ParkARTICLEIsis2001

  • Authors’ response

    Open AccessLorraine Daston, Katharine ParkARTICLEMetascience2000

  • Desire and discipline: Sex and sexuality in the premodern West

    Open AccessKatharine ParkARTICLEJournal of the History of the…2000

  • Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages

    Open AccessKatharine ParkARTICLEChurch History2000References: 4

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  • Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. Alice Domurat Dreger

    Katharine ParkARTICLEIsis2000

  • Contracting a Cure: Patients, Healers, and the Law in Early Modern Bologna

    Katharine ParkARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1999

  • The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients

    Open AccessKatharine ParkARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1999

    Andrew Cunningham, The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997. 46 illus. + xiv + 283 pp. $76.95. ISBN: 1-85728-338-1. - Nancy G. Siraisi, The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 1 illus. + xiv + 362 pp. $49.50. ISBN: 0-691-01189-3. - Volume 52 Issue 2

  • Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality (review)

    Katharine ParkARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Reviewed by: Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality Katharine Park Karen Newman. Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xi + 157 pp. Ill. $39.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paperbound). This compact and highly illustrated book is a useful and provocative study of the history of visual representations of fetuses (mostly in utero) in Europe and the United States. Although Newman frames her ac…

  • De abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis (review)

    Katharine ParkARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Reviewed by: De abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morborum et sanitationum causis Katharine Park Antonio Benivieni. De abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morborum et sanitationum causis. Edited by Giorgio Weber. Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere “La Colombaria,” no. 142. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1994. 291 pp. L 58,000.00. On Some Hidden and Wonderful Causes of Illness and Healing, by the Florentine physician Antonio Benivieni, is one of the most fas…

  • The Meanings Of Natural Diversity: Marco Polo On The "Division" Of The World

    Katharine ParkCHAPTERTexts and Contexts in Ancient and…1997

    This chapter explores the meanings of natural diversity: what it consisted of, whence it arose, and why it was important, in one text. The idea of natural diversity had different meanings and associations in each of these contexts, and the interaction of these various meanings and associations is one of the principal sources of the book's coherence and power. One of the most resonant expressions of the idea of natural diversity appears in the pas…

  • Medicine Before the Plague: Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1345 (review)

    Katharine ParkARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1996

    Reviewed by: Medicine before the Plague: Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285–1345 Katharine Park Michael R. McVaugh. Medicine before the Plague: Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285–1345. Cambridge History of Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xvi + 280 pp. Ill. $59.95. In 1333 Pere Teixidor of Oristà was denounced as a leper in Vic, in Catalonia. At Pere’s request, the court …

  • The Life of the Corpse: Division and Dissection in Late Medieval Europe

    Katharine ParkARTICLEJournal of the History of…1995Cited by: 8

    Journal Article The Life of the Corpse: Division and Dissection in Late Medieval Europe Get access KATHARINE PARK KATHARINE PARK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 1995, Pages 111–132, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/50.1.111 Published: 01 January 1995

  • The Hermaphrodite and the Orders of Nature: Sexual Ambiguity in Early Modern France

    Lorraine Daston, Katharine ParkARTICLEGLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay…1995Cited by: 23References: 23

    Research Article| October 01 1995 The Hermaphrodite and the Orders of Nature: Sexual Ambiguity in Early Modern France Lorraine Daston; Lorraine Daston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Katharine Park Katharine Park Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1995) 1 (4): 419–438. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1-4-419 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lorraine D…