Lauren Kassell

Lauren Kassell (born 30 July 1970)[1] is Professor of History of Science and Medicine at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Since September 2021, she is on leave from Cambridge to serve as the Professor in History of Science at the European University Institute (Florence).[2] She completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford in 1997. She is known for her work on the history of astrology and medicine in early modern England.[3][4]

Lauren Kassell
EducationUniversity of Oxford, Haverford College
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisSimon Forman's philosophy of medicine: medicine, astrology and alchemy in London, c.1580-1611 (1997)
Websitewww.people.hps.cam.ac.uk/index/teaching-officers/kassell

Kassell directed the Casebooks project to digitise the medical records of the astrologers Simon Forman and Richard Napier, one of the largest sets of early modern medical records.[5] Kassell was the historical consultant for the 2019 video game Astrologaster, based on her work on Simon Forman.[6]

Broadcasts

Selected publications
  • Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018. (co-editor and contributor)
  • Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman, Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005.

References
  1. "Kassell, Lauren, 1970-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  2. "Profile Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge".
  3. Ellie Broughton. "What It Was Like to Go to the Doctor in 1610". Vice. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  4. Sara Reardon. "Sex-Crazed Astrologer Was a Stellar Records Keeper". Science. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  5. Alison Flood. "Purges, angels and 'pigeon slippers': methods of Elizabethan quacks finally deciphered". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  6. Todd Martens. "What to play: 'Astrologaster' gets topical with Shakespearean-era alternative facts". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
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