Communication should be central to histories of reproduction, because it has structured how peopl... more Communication should be central to histories of reproduction, because it has structured how people do and do not reproduce. Yet communication has been so pervasive, and so various, that it is often taken for granted and the historical specificities overlooked. Making communication a frame for histories of reproduction can draw a fragmented field together, including by putting the promotion of esoteric ideas on a par with other practical activities. Paying communication close attention can revitalize the history of reproduction over the long term by highlighting continuities as well as the complex connections between new technologies and new approaches. Themes such as the power of storytelling, the claiming and challenging of expertise, and relations between knowledge and ignorance, secrecy and propriety also invite further study.
Casebooks are the richest sources that we have for encounters between early modern medical practi... more Casebooks are the richest sources that we have for encounters between early modern medical practitioners and their patients. This article compares astrological and medical records across two centuries, focused on England, and charts developments in the ways in which practitioners kept records and reflected on their practices. Astrologers had a long history of working from particular moments, stellar configurations, and events to general rules. These practices required systematic notation. Physicians increasingly modeled themselves on Hippocrates, recording details of cases as the basis for reasoned expositions of the histories of disease. Medical records, as other scholars have demonstrated, shaped the production of medical knowledge. Instead, this article focuses on the nature of casebooks as artifacts of the medical encounter. It establishes that casebooks were serial records of practice, akin to diaries, testimonials, and registers; identifies extant English casebooks and the pra...
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2010
When citing this paper, please use the full journal title Studies in History and Philosophy of Bi... more When citing this paper, please use the full journal title Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
... By Helge Kragh 353 Lyndy Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery and Hans-Werner Schu$tt,... more ... By Helge Kragh 353 Lyndy Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery and Hans-Werner Schu$tt, Auf der Suche nach dem Stein der Weisen: Die Geschichte der ... By Elizabeth Neswald 363 Christine Kenyon-Jones, Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. ...
The British Journal for the History of Science, 2002
... By Helge Kragh 353 Lyndy Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery and Hans-Werner Schu$tt,... more ... By Helge Kragh 353 Lyndy Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery and Hans-Werner Schu$tt, Auf der Suche nach dem Stein der Weisen: Die Geschichte der ... By Elizabeth Neswald 363 Christine Kenyon-Jones, Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. ...
Communication should be central to histories of reproduction, because it has structured how peopl... more Communication should be central to histories of reproduction, because it has structured how people do and do not reproduce. Yet communication has been so pervasive, and so various, that it is often taken for granted and the historical specificities overlooked. Making communication a frame for histories of reproduction can draw a fragmented field together, including by putting the promotion of esoteric ideas on a par with other practical activities. Paying communication close attention can revitalize the history of reproduction over the long term by highlighting continuities as well as the complex connections between new technologies and new approaches. Themes such as the power of storytelling, the claiming and challenging of expertise, and relations between knowledge and ignorance, secrecy and propriety also invite further study.
Casebooks are the richest sources that we have for encounters between early modern medical practi... more Casebooks are the richest sources that we have for encounters between early modern medical practitioners and their patients. This article compares astrological and medical records across two centuries, focused on England, and charts developments in the ways in which practitioners kept records and reflected on their practices. Astrologers had a long history of working from particular moments, stellar configurations, and events to general rules. These practices required systematic notation. Physicians increasingly modeled themselves on Hippocrates, recording details of cases as the basis for reasoned expositions of the histories of disease. Medical records, as other scholars have demonstrated, shaped the production of medical knowledge. Instead, this article focuses on the nature of casebooks as artifacts of the medical encounter. It establishes that casebooks were serial records of practice, akin to diaries, testimonials, and registers; identifies extant English casebooks and the pra...
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2010
When citing this paper, please use the full journal title Studies in History and Philosophy of Bi... more When citing this paper, please use the full journal title Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
... By Helge Kragh 353 Lyndy Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery and Hans-Werner Schu$tt,... more ... By Helge Kragh 353 Lyndy Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery and Hans-Werner Schu$tt, Auf der Suche nach dem Stein der Weisen: Die Geschichte der ... By Elizabeth Neswald 363 Christine Kenyon-Jones, Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. ...
The British Journal for the History of Science, 2002
... By Helge Kragh 353 Lyndy Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery and Hans-Werner Schu$tt,... more ... By Helge Kragh 353 Lyndy Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery and Hans-Werner Schu$tt, Auf der Suche nach dem Stein der Weisen: Die Geschichte der ... By Elizabeth Neswald 363 Christine Kenyon-Jones, Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. ...
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