Anna Gili: Women’s Health in Early Islamic Medical Works: Contextualising al-Maǧūsī’s "Kitāb al-malakī" Al-Maǧūsī, a Zoroastrian physician from the Fārs province, composed his Kitāb al-malakī during the second half of […]

Shannon McHugh: Women’s Reproductive Lives in Renaissance Italian Lyric Poetry What can a sonnet teach us about the history of women’s reproductive bodies? For the early modern world, notions about […]

Karin Durin: Fluids as Dynamic and Organic Forces. Medical knowledge in Oliva Sabuco de Nantes This work will examine the study of organic fluids and movements in the Nueva filosofía de […]

Viktorya Vasilyan: A History of Breastfeeding: Its Iconography and Medical Importance During human history, infants were fed human milk for survival, either through breastfeeding by their mothers or adoptive breastfeeding […]

Martina Guzzetti: Pregnant Women’s Wellbeing in Jane Sharp’s "The Midwives’ Book" (1671) Women’s health, wellbeing, and medical conditions have always been at the centre of gendered debates concerning, among other […]