Faculty Member, History
Associate Professor
About
Since my PhD on women's health care in early modern England and France, I have been interested in looking more widely at gender and health. I am currently finishing a book (Domestic Medicine: Gender, Health and the Household in Eighteenth-Century England and France), which explores the fundamental ways in which ideas about gendered bodies and the health of households were central to state-building.
I have two other ongoing projects. First, I continue to develop my database of Sir Hans Sloane's Correspondence. I am using the database to investigate: 1) family health; and 2) the importance of familial and French networks in Sloane's career.
Second, I became interested in the body-soul connection through my work on pain. I am exploring the mind-body relationship in early modern supernatural beliefs.
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