MEDICINE AND MAGIC IN ELIZABETHAN LONDON: SIMON FORMAN: ASTROLOGER, ALCHEMIST, AND PHYSICIAN
LAUREN KASSELL • CLARENDON/OXFORD
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- LAUREN KASSELL
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- CLARENDON/OXFORD
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- 9780199279050
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Published by Oxford University Press in 2005, this scholarly work offers a meticulous examination of the life and practice of Simon Forman, a controversial figure in the medical and occult landscape of late 16th and early 17th-century London. Lauren Kassell utilizes Forman’s extensive surviving casebooks to reconstruct the intersections of professional medicine, astrology, and alchemy, framing his work not as a fringe curiosity but as a reflection of the period's broader epistemological debates regarding health and human agency.
Kassell, a historian of science and medicine, designed this study to move beyond the popular perception of Forman as merely a rogue practitioner. By analyzing the structural and practical aspects of his practice, the author provides an academic look at how Elizabethan patients navigated their ailments through a synthesis of empirical observation and celestial interpretation. The book was well-received by historians for its rigorous archival research, serving as a landmark contribution to the history of early modern science and the sociology of medical knowledge.
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