Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London
Lauren Kassell • 2005 • OUP Oxford
- Author
- Lauren Kassell
- First published
- 2005
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Genres
- Biography · History
- Subjects
- Alchemists · Biography · History · Medicine
- ISBN
- 9780199279050
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Published by Oxford University Press in 2005, Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London is a scholarly monograph by historian Lauren Kassell. The work emerged from the burgeoning academic interest in the intersections of early modern science, superstition, and daily life, focusing specifically on the life and practices of Simon Forman, a prominent physician and astrologer active in London at the turn of the seventeenth century.
Kassell’s research utilizes Forman’s extensive personal casebooks to reconstruct how medical knowledge was constructed and consumed in a period before modern professional boundaries were established. The book is regarded as a significant contribution to history of medicine scholarship, praised for its meticulous archival work and its success in humanizing the professional and occult practices of an era characterized by the blurred lines between formal medicine and natural philosophy.
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