Caroline Lieffers
Biographic Data
| ID | 988473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Lieffers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Lieffers |
| SIGNATURE | LIEFFERS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The King's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disability, Spirituality, and Settler Colonialism
This article is a microhistorical examination of a settler medical technology in an Indigenous community: Umonhon leader Joseph La Flesche’s artificial leg, which he wore from the early 1860s until his death in 1888. This case study illustrates how La Flesche’s disability and prosthesis were deeply entangled with Euro-American challenges to Umonhon ways of life, including relational care, land use, and spiritual practices. Although the artificial…
They Perished in the Cause of Science”
In 1867, controversy erupted when Jean-Anne-Henri Depaul, a Paris accoucheur, tested Justus von Liebig’s new “food for infants” on four newborns, all of whom died within days. This paper examines the origins of Liebig’s food, the debates in the French Academy of Medicine after Depaul’s experiment, and how the events were discussed in the medical and popular presses. I argue that the controversy was shaped by a number of interconnected concerns, i…
A paradise among leprosariums
The Panama Canal Zone’s American administration established Palo Seco Leper Colony in 1907 in order to contain individuals with Hansen’s disease. Yet containment was never a simple strategy. This article argues that American observers used rhetoric to transmute their fear of Hansen’s disease into pity, imagining isolation as a form of care and buttressing the United States’ claim that the curative violence of incarceration was part of a beneficen…
Inseparable
No abstract available
Radical Medicine
"Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada. Esyllt W. Jones." Canadian Historical Review, 103(1), pp. 192–193
Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens. Normality
“The normal is not monolithic,” write Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens (p.359). Normality: A Critical Genealogy is an ambitious, wide-ranging study that demonstrates this crucial point, adding helpful specificity and historicity to our understanding of the normal and its cultural power. Tracing the genealogy of both the term and the concept from about the 1820s to the 1950s, Cryle and Stephens pay particular attention to the ways in which the n…
The Garden, the Library, the Body, and the Table
This article uses John Evelyn’s Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (1699), a short book on the garden’s edible products, to highlight the place of food in early modern science. Exemplifying the period’s epistemic dynamism, Evelyn blended facts and interpretations gleaned from the garden, the library, the body, and the table. Food was a kind of quotidian trading zone, a potential meeting place for publics and ideas, and Evelyn was able to find point…
Pig's Liver Rice Crepes
This article examines a dim sum ticket from the My Lai Garden, a prominent 1970s Edmonton restaurant, arguing that this traditional Cantonese assortment of snacks and tea acted as a transplanted cultural space for a transplanted people. As Edmonton's Chinese population exploded in the 1970s, dim sum worked as an ethnic performance and a social space, a cultural metaphor and a practical occasion for families to bond, friends to meet, and business …
Guy R. Hasegawa, Mending Broken Soldiers
Journal Article Guy R. Hasegawa, Mending Broken Soldiers: The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs Get access Guy R. Hasegawa, Mending Broken Soldiers: The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 126. $24.95. ISBN 978 0 8093 3130 7. Caroline Lieffers Caroline Lieffers University of Alberta [email protected] Search for other …
The Present Time is Eminently Scientific
This article examines the epistemology of cookery among the middle classes in nineteenth-century Britain. Quantification, schematization, and the scientific evaluation of food and its preparation were increasingly emphasized in prescriptive cookery books and housekeeping literature. These trends are evident to some extent in manuscript cookbooks, as well. Cookery was influenced by a rise in chemists' and physicians' professional authority, and sc…
Every family might be its own Economical Housekeeping Company (Limited)
The management techniques that supported success in commerce, manufacturing, and the professions in nineteenth-century England were also encouraged in the domestic space, where women negotiated their practice. Household guides show how metaphors of mechanization and professionalism were applied to domestic labour, while the management of time, things, and money in the home called for rationalized planning on the part of the mistress. Although the…
The Garden, the Library, the Body, and the Table
This article uses John Evelyn’s Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (1699), a short book on the garden’s edible products, to highlight the place of food in early modern science. Exemplifying the period’s epistemic dynamism, Evelyn blended facts and interpretations gleaned from the garden, the library, the body, and the table. Food was a kind of quotidian trading zone, a potential meeting place for publics and ideas, and Evelyn was able to find point…
The Present Time is Eminently Scientific
This article examines the epistemology of cookery among the middle classes in nineteenth-century Britain. Quantification, schematization, and the scientific evaluation of food and its preparation were increasingly emphasized in prescriptive cookery books and housekeeping literature. These trends are evident to some extent in manuscript cookbooks, as well. Cookery was influenced by a rise in chemists' and physicians' professional authority, and sc…
Every family might be its own Economical Housekeeping Company (Limited)
The management techniques that supported success in commerce, manufacturing, and the professions in nineteenth-century England were also encouraged in the domestic space, where women negotiated their practice. Household guides show how metaphors of mechanization and professionalism were applied to domestic labour, while the management of time, things, and money in the home called for rationalized planning on the part of the mistress. Although the…
Guy R. Hasegawa, Mending Broken Soldiers
Journal Article Guy R. Hasegawa, Mending Broken Soldiers: The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs Get access Guy R. Hasegawa, Mending Broken Soldiers: The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 126. $24.95. ISBN 978 0 8093 3130 7. Caroline Lieffers Caroline Lieffers University of Alberta [email protected] Search for other …
Pig's Liver Rice Crepes
This article examines a dim sum ticket from the My Lai Garden, a prominent 1970s Edmonton restaurant, arguing that this traditional Cantonese assortment of snacks and tea acted as a transplanted cultural space for a transplanted people. As Edmonton's Chinese population exploded in the 1970s, dim sum worked as an ethnic performance and a social space, a cultural metaphor and a practical occasion for families to bond, friends to meet, and business …
The Garden, the Library, the Body, and the Table
This article uses John Evelyn’s Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (1699), a short book on the garden’s edible products, to highlight the place of food in early modern science. Exemplifying the period’s epistemic dynamism, Evelyn blended facts and interpretations gleaned from the garden, the library, the body, and the table. Food was a kind of quotidian trading zone, a potential meeting place for publics and ideas, and Evelyn was able to find point…
Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens. Normality
“The normal is not monolithic,” write Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens (p.359). Normality: A Critical Genealogy is an ambitious, wide-ranging study that demonstrates this crucial point, adding helpful specificity and historicity to our understanding of the normal and its cultural power. Tracing the genealogy of both the term and the concept from about the 1820s to the 1950s, Cryle and Stephens pay particular attention to the ways in which the n…
Inseparable
No abstract available
Radical Medicine
"Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada. Esyllt W. Jones." Canadian Historical Review, 103(1), pp. 192–193
They Perished in the Cause of Science”
In 1867, controversy erupted when Jean-Anne-Henri Depaul, a Paris accoucheur, tested Justus von Liebig’s new “food for infants” on four newborns, all of whom died within days. This paper examines the origins of Liebig’s food, the debates in the French Academy of Medicine after Depaul’s experiment, and how the events were discussed in the medical and popular presses. I argue that the controversy was shaped by a number of interconnected concerns, i…
A paradise among leprosariums
The Panama Canal Zone’s American administration established Palo Seco Leper Colony in 1907 in order to contain individuals with Hansen’s disease. Yet containment was never a simple strategy. This article argues that American observers used rhetoric to transmute their fear of Hansen’s disease into pity, imagining isolation as a form of care and buttressing the United States’ claim that the curative violence of incarceration was part of a beneficen…
Disability, Spirituality, and Settler Colonialism
This article is a microhistorical examination of a settler medical technology in an Indigenous community: Umonhon leader Joseph La Flesche’s artificial leg, which he wore from the early 1860s until his death in 1888. This case study illustrates how La Flesche’s disability and prosthesis were deeply entangled with Euro-American challenges to Umonhon ways of life, including relational care, land use, and spiritual practices. Although the artificial…
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