Lori Jones

Biographic Data

ID4522034
NAMELori Jones
GIVEN NAMESLori
FAMILY NAMEJones
SIGNATUREJONES L
AFFILIATIONSCarleton University
ORCID0000-0002-1668-4246
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The World the Plague Made

    Lori JonesARTICLESpeculum2025

  • Handling “Occult Qualities” in the Scientific Revolution

    Open AccessLori JonesARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2025

    Handling “Occult Qualities” in the Scientific Revolution: Disciplines and New Approaches to Natural Philosophy, from John Dee to Isaac Newton. Xiaona Wang. Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science. Leiden: Brill, 2023. viii + 252 pp. $150. - Volume 78 Issue 1

  • The Complete History of the Black Death

    Lori JonesARTICLESpeculum2023

  • Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–1500

    Open AccessLori JonesARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2023

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  • The Black Death

    Open AccessLori JonesARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2023

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  • Itineraries and Transformations

    Lori JonesARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2021

    As one of the most popular medieval plague treatises produced during the Second Plague Pandemic, John of Burgundy's tract offers an excellent example of how medical books changed over time and place: in their material formats (such as manuscript to print), their textual contents and meanings, the people involved in their production, their readership, and sometimes even their purpose. The seemingly formulaic structure and medical contents of plagu…

  • Expelling the Plague

    Lori JonesARTICLEJournal of the History of…2016

    Along with Florence, Mantua, Milan, and Venice, historians credit Dubrovnik (also called Ragusa) with implementing the earliest recorded plague control measures. These fourteenth- and fifteenth-century legislative actions—including quarantines, Health Offices, plague hospitals, and sanitary cordons—were adopted much later in northern Europe and, according to some historians, may have contributed to the eventual disappearance of large-scale plague…

  • Promoting male involvement in family planning in Vietnam and India

    Lisa MacDonald, Lori Jones et al.ARTICLEGender & Development2013

    In many developing countries, gender inequality contributes to the continued problem of unwanted pregnancies and unmet contraception needs. The majority of family planning programmes in Asia target only women; however, women's lack of decision-making power, even with regard to their own health, hinders their ability to practise family planning. This article describes successes and lessons learned in India and Vietnam from a HealthBridge programme…

  • Modernization Value Change and Fertility in the Soviet Union

    Open AccessLori Jones, Fred W GruppARTICLEPopulation1988Cited by: 8

    This study is concerned with the complex linkages among modernization value change demographic change and public policy in the USSR. It has two objectives. First it explores the relationship between value change and fertility. Second it examines the impact of public policies both intended and unintended on family values and fertility The first part of the book examines the impact of modernization and value change on fertility. In 1 a theoretical …