Katharine Park
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Katharine Park is a Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She specializes in the history of gender, sexuality, and the female body in medieval and Renaissance Europe, as well as categories and practices of experience and observation in the Middle Ages. Park was awarded a Marshall Scholarship in 1974. She received her M.Phil in the Combined Historical Studies of the Renaissance at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and earned a Ph.D. in the History of Science at Harvard in 1981.
Katharine Park's Published Works
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Published Works
- Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (2000) (570)
- The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy* (1994) (180)
- The Cambridge History of Science (2006) (124)
- Secrets Of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection (2006) (83)
- The Hermaphrodite and the Orders of Nature: Sexual Ambiguity in Early Modern France (1995) (63)
- Medicine in Society: Medicine and society in medieval Europe, 500-1500 (1992) (48)
- Psychology: The organic soul (1988) (47)
- Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence (1986) (36)
- Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (2011) (32)
- Homes and Households (2006) (25)
- Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages (2000) (22)
- Introduction: The Age of the New (2006) (22)
- Observation in the Margins, 500-1500 (2011) (21)
- Early modern science (2006) (20)
- Cadden, Laqueur, and the "One-Sex Body" (2010) (19)
- Healers and healing in early modern Italy (2000) (18)
- Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families and Masculinities (2009) (18)
- :Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning (2002) (18)
- Scientific Explanation from Formal Causes to Laws of Nature (2006) (17)
- The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 3: Early Modern Science (2008) (15)
- Physics and Foundations (2006) (15)
- Hermaphrodites in Renaissance France (1985) (14)
- Bacon's "Enchanted Glass" (1984) (14)
- Signs and portents: monstrous births from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (1994) (14)
- Networks of Travel, Correspondence, and Exchange (2006) (14)
- Women, Gender, and Utopia (2006) (13)
- The Death of Isabella Della Volpe: Four Eyewitness Accounts of a Postmortem Caesarean Section in 1545 (2008) (11)
- Response to Brian Vickers, "Francis Bacon, Feminist Historiography, and the Dominion of Nature" (2008) (10)
- Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes on Imagination and Analogy (1984) (9)
- The Mechanical Arts (2006) (9)
- Country medicine in the city marketplace: snakehandlers as itinerant healers (2001) (9)
- Markets, Piazzas, and Villages (2006) (8)
- Sites of Military Science and Technology (2006) (7)
- Coffeehouses and Print Shops (2006) (7)
- The Meanings Of Natural Diversity: Marco Polo On The "Division" Of The World (1997) (5)
- Courts and Academies (2006) (5)
- Birth and Death (2010) (4)
- Relics of a fertile heart : the 'autopsy' of Clare of Montefalco (2015) (3)
- European Expansion and Self-Definition (2006) (3)
- Psychology: The concept of psychology (1988) (3)
- Desire and discipline: Sex and sexuality in the premodern West (2000) (3)
- THAT THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH PROHIBITED HUMAN DISSECTION (2009) (3)
- Women, Gender, and Utopia: The Death of Nature and the Historiography of Early Modern Science (2009) (3)
- Hermaphrodites and the orders of nature (1995) (2)
- Libraries and Lecture Halls (2006) (2)
- Medicine and Natural Philosophy: Naturalistic Traditions (2013) (2)
- III. The Medical Marketplace (1985) (2)
- Book Review:Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex Alice Domurat Dreger (2000) (2)
- Relics of a Fertile Heart (2002) (2)
- Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality (review) (1998) (2)
- Managing Childbirth and Fertility in Medieval Europe (2018) (2)
- Allegories of Knowledge (2011) (1)
- APPENDIX II. Medical Curriculum at the University of Bologna (1405) (1985) (1)
- Nature in Person (2003) (1)
- Nature in Person: Renaissance Allegories and Emblems (2004) (1)
- Was there a Renaissance body (2015) (1)
- Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500. Nancy G. Siraisi (1990) (1)
- Medicine before Science: The Rational and Learned Doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (2005) (1)
- Book Review:The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600 Mary B. Campbell (1990) (1)
- Country Medicine in the City Marketplace: Snakehandlers in Renaissance Italy (2001) (1)
- Plague and the Poor in Renaissance Florence.Ann G. Carmichael (1987) (0)
- Book Review:At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies, and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, Susan Wiseman (2001) (0)
- VI. Doctors in Florentine Culture (1985) (0)
- Myth 5. That the Medieval Church Prohibited Human Dissection (2009) (0)
- Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice.Nancy G. Siraisi (1994) (0)
- Book Review:Miasmas and Disease: Public Health and the Environment in the Pre-Industrial Age Carlo M. Cipolla, Elizabeth Potter (1994) (0)
- The Mirror of Nature - Was there a Renaissance Body? (2002) (0)
- Acoustics and Optics (2006) (0)
- Helen King.Midwifery, Obstetrics, and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth‐Century Compendium.(Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.)x + 228 pp., figs., bibl., index. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. $99.95 (cloth). (2009) (0)
- The J. H. B. bookshelf (1995) (0)
- The "Trotula": A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine. Monica H. Green (2004) (0)
- Book Review: Science and Magic: Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance (1986) (0)
- Early modern writing and the new philosophy (1992) (0)
- Book Review:Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils: Two Generations of Italian Medical Learning Nancy G. Siraisi (1982) (0)
- Unnatural conceptions : the study of monster in 16th and 17th century France and England [in Japanese] (1982) (0)
- The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients. Andrew CunninghamThe Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine. Nancy G. Siraisi (1999) (0)
- Medieval Psychology. Simon Kemp (1992) (0)
- The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (review) (2002) (0)
- Heather WebbThe Medieval Heart. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2010. Pp. x, 241. $55.00.Reviews of BooksEurope: Ancient and Medieval (2011) (0)
- APPENDIX IV. Index to Doctors' Letters (1985) (0)
- V. Doctors in Florentine Society (1985) (0)
- News of the Profession (1957) (0)
- Book Review:Prophecy and People in Renaissance Italy Ottavia Niccoli, Lydia G. Cochrane (1992) (0)
- II. The Doctors (1985) (0)
- Authors’ response (2000) (0)
- APPENDIX III. Doctors in the Catasto of 1427 (1985) (0)
- IV. Medical Careers (1985) (0)
- The Italian patient: health care in renaissance Italy (2005) (0)
- The Myth of the “One-Sex” Body (2023) (0)
- Medicine Before the Plague: Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1345 (review) (1996) (0)
- Index of Doctors and Their Families (1985) (0)
- Martin Kemp;, Marina Wallace.Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo da Vinci to Now. 232 pp., frontis., illus. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. $35 (paper). (2003) (0)
- APPENDIX I. Names, Dates, Places, and Money (1985) (0)
- Books Received (2008) (0)
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