Kassandra Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kassandra Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kassandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco Department of Public Health |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-0723-0786 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Resetting Her Biological Clock
This article investigates the array of techniques used in the Roman Imperial period to induce menstruation — techniques such as cupping, bloodletting, inserting pessaries, ingesting or applying materia medica, or wearing amulets — and seeks to understand the range of social contexts in which they might have been used. This study focuses particularly on how menstrual induction technologies could be deployed in agonistic settings within the medical…
Continuing Low Awareness and Use of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID), San Francisco, 2022
Disparities in HIV Testing and PrEP Awareness for Black Women who Inject Drugs in San Francisco, California
Making Time for the Body
Today, many patients and health care providers feel they lack sufficient discretionary time to maintain personal health and offer high-quality care. While this problem seems strictly modern, the Roman-era physician Galen of Pergamon also recognized that time scarcity has adverse health effects and proposed strategies to mitigate them. This article critically examines Galen's approach and its relevance today. The study demonstrates that Galen unde…
Intentional Menstrual Suppression in Imperial Rome
The history of intentional menstrual suppression is often assumed to begin in the 1960s, with the advent of effective oral contraception. This article, however, demonstrates that in the Roman Imperial period, despite widespread belief in the importance of menstruation for maintaining female reproductive health, there was already a diverse marketplace for menstrual suppression techniques. By reading sources against the grain and engaging in critic…
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire by Paul J. Kosmin
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 379 to come. The book is all meat and no filler and is clearly written throughout. It is an important book and a valuable contribution to the field. University of Colorado Boulder Peter Hunt Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire. By Paul J. Kosmin. Cambridge, MA, and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2018. Pp. x, 379. Paul Kosmin's second book—a companion piece to his 2014 monogr…
Towards a typology of triangular bronze Hekate bases
Excavations in Field 49 at Sardis in the summer of 2015 recovered a bronze triangle inscribed with three images of the goddess Hekate, Greek epithets, and magical symbols (Gr. χαρακτῆρες). The Sardis triangle is the third example of this design known from Roman Anatolia, the other two having been recovered from Pergamon and Apamea. This article aims to situate the new find within its archaeological and historical contexts and, through comparisons…
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Towards a typology of triangular bronze Hekate bases
Excavations in Field 49 at Sardis in the summer of 2015 recovered a bronze triangle inscribed with three images of the goddess Hekate, Greek epithets, and magical symbols (Gr. χαρακτῆρες). The Sardis triangle is the third example of this design known from Roman Anatolia, the other two having been recovered from Pergamon and Apamea. This article aims to situate the new find within its archaeological and historical contexts and, through comparisons…
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire by Paul J. Kosmin
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 379 to come. The book is all meat and no filler and is clearly written throughout. It is an important book and a valuable contribution to the field. University of Colorado Boulder Peter Hunt Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire. By Paul J. Kosmin. Cambridge, MA, and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2018. Pp. x, 379. Paul Kosmin's second book—a companion piece to his 2014 monogr…
Continuing Low Awareness and Use of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID), San Francisco, 2022
Disparities in HIV Testing and PrEP Awareness for Black Women who Inject Drugs in San Francisco, California
Making Time for the Body
Today, many patients and health care providers feel they lack sufficient discretionary time to maintain personal health and offer high-quality care. While this problem seems strictly modern, the Roman-era physician Galen of Pergamon also recognized that time scarcity has adverse health effects and proposed strategies to mitigate them. This article critically examines Galen's approach and its relevance today. The study demonstrates that Galen unde…
Intentional Menstrual Suppression in Imperial Rome
The history of intentional menstrual suppression is often assumed to begin in the 1960s, with the advent of effective oral contraception. This article, however, demonstrates that in the Roman Imperial period, despite widespread belief in the importance of menstruation for maintaining female reproductive health, there was already a diverse marketplace for menstrual suppression techniques. By reading sources against the grain and engaging in critic…
Resetting Her Biological Clock
This article investigates the array of techniques used in the Roman Imperial period to induce menstruation — techniques such as cupping, bloodletting, inserting pessaries, ingesting or applying materia medica, or wearing amulets — and seeks to understand the range of social contexts in which they might have been used. This study focuses particularly on how menstrual induction technologies could be deployed in agonistic settings within the medical…
Medicine (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works)