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

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]

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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