Katharine Park

Katharine Park (* 1950 ) is an American historian of science .

Park graduated from Radcliffe College with a bachelor's degree in 1972 (BA, History and Literature of the Renaissance and Reformation ). She received a Masters degree (M. Phil.) From the Warburg Institute of the University of London (Combined Historical Studies of the Renaissance) in 1974 and received her PhD in History of Science from Harvard University in 1981. From 1977 to 1980 she was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. From 1980 she was at Wellesley College , where she was Assistant Professor in 1981 , Associate Professor in 1986 and Professor in 1993. From 1987 to 1990 she headed the history faculty there. In 1990 she was visiting professor at Princeton University . She has been Professor of the History of Science and Gender Studies at Harvard since 1997 ( Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Research Professor of the History of Science ).

It deals with the history of medicine in the Middle Ages and the early modern period (Renaissance), particularly with regard to gender, sexuality and body history. In her first book of 1985 on doctors of the early Renaissance in Florence she examined the role that non-academics in medicine played (such as artists and artisans), and in her book Secrets of Women in 2006, she describes the development of the art of dissection from applied activity such as that of midwives , embalmers and in prison .

She also examined visual culture in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period ( allegories that expressed a changed approach to nature and authorities, history of sexuality and gender differences in natural philosophy , fascination with belief in miracles). She is working on a project on the exchange of science between the Christian Occident and Islam in the Middle Ages with Ahmed Ragab (Harvard Divinity School) and on a project on visual culture in the Middle Ages (The Science of the Senses: Experience and Observation in Medieval Science).

In 2016 she received the George Sarton Medal . Her book Wonders and the Order of Nature received the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society and the Ronald H. Bainton Prize. Her book Secrets of Women received the Welch Medal from the American Association of the History of Medicine and the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize . She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2002 . In 2000 she was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 1995/96 she was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Fonts

• Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence, Princeton University Press, 1985
• with Lorraine J. Daston : Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750, New York: Zone Books, 1998
  • German translation: Miracles and order of nature, 1150–1750, Frankfurt: Eichborn 2002
• Secrets of Women - Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection: Zone Books, 2006
• Editor with Lorraine J. Daston: The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 3: Early Modern Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Some essays:

• The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy , The Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 47, 1994, pp. 1-33.
• Medicine and Society in Medieval Europe, 500-1500, in Andrew Wear (Ed.): Medicine in Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 59-90.
• The Life of the Corpse: Dissection and Division in Late Medieval Europe , Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 50, 1995, pp. 111-32.
• with Lorraine J. Daston: Hermaphrodites in Renaissance France , Critical Matrix, Volume 1, 1985, pp. 1-19.
• with Lorraine J. Daston: The Hermaphrodite and the Orders of Nature: Sexual Ambiguity in Early Modern France , GLQ, Volume 1, 1995, pp. 419-438.
• Magic and Medicine: The Healing Arts , in: Judith C. Brown, Robert C. Davis (Eds.), Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy, London: Addison-Wesley Longman, 1998.
• Impressed Images: Reproducing Wonders , in: Caroline A. Jones, Peter Galison (Eds.), Picturing Science, Producing Art, New York: Routledge, 1998, pp. 254-271.
• Natural Particulars: Epistemology, Practice, and the Literature of Healing Springs , in: Anthony Grafton, Nancy G. Siraisi (Eds.), Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1999, p. 347 -367.
• The Meanings of Natural Diversity: Marco Polo on the "Division" of the World, in Edith Sylla, Michael R. McVaugh, eds., Texts and Contexts in Medieval Science: Studies on the Occasion of John E. Murdoch's Seventieth Birthday, Leiden: Brill, 1997, 134-47
• The Concept of Psychology (with Eckhart Kessler) and The Organic Soul , in: Charles B. Schmitt u. a. (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, Chapters 13 and 14
• Healing the Poor: Hospitals and Medical Assistance in Renaissance Florence , in: Jonathan Barry, Colin Jones (Eds.), Medicine and Charity before the Welfare State, London: Routledge, 1991, pp. 26-45
• Observation in the Margins, 500-1500 , in: Lorraine Daston, Elizabeth Lunbeck (Eds.): Histories of Observation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, pp. 15-44.

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