Resources
Studies of Forman and Napier
For introductory biographical information about Forman and Napier see the entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: 'Forman, Simon (1552-1611)' and 'Napier, Richard (1559-1634)'. (These links point to subscriber-only content, but the articles can also be found in the print edition.)
- Kassell, Lauren (1999) 'How to Read Simon Forman’s Casebooks: Medicine, Astrology and Gender in Elizabethan London', Social History of Medicine, 12, 3-18.
- Kassell, Lauren (2005) Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman, Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- MacDonald, Michael (1981) Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Rowse, A. L. (1974) Simon Forman: Sex and Society is Shakespeare's Age, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
- Sawyer, Ronald (1986) 'Patients, Healers and Disease in the Southeast Midlands, 1597-1634', Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin.
- Traister, Barbara (2001) The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Select readings on medical records and the patient in history
- Armstrong, David (1984) 'The Patient's View', Social Science and Medicine, 18: 737-44.
- Beier, Lucinda McCray (1987) Sufferers and Healers: The Experience of Illness in Seventeenth-Century England, London: Routledge.
- Condrau, Flurin (2007) 'The Patient’s View Meets the Clinical Gaze', Social History of Medicine, 20: 525-40.
- Crisciani, Chiara (2005) 'Histories, Stories, Exempla, and Anecdotes: Michele Savonarola from Latin to Vernacular', in Gianna Pomata and Nancy G. Siraisi (eds), Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early-Modern Europe, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 297-324.
- Daston, Lorraine (2008) 'On Scientific Observation', Isis, 99: 97-110.
- Duden, Barbara (1991 [1987]) The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany, trans. Thomas Dunlap, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
- Entralgo, Pédro Lain (1950) La historia clinica: historia y teoria del relato patografica, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas.
- Fissell, Mary (1991) 'The Disappearance of the Patient's Narrative and the Invention of Hospital Medicine', in Andrew Wear and Roger French (eds), British Medicine in an Age of Reform, London: Routledge, 92–109.
- Forrester, John (1996) 'If p, Then What? Thinking in Cases', History of the Human Sciences, 9, 1-25.
- Jewson, N. D. (1976) 'The Disappearance of the Sick-Man from Medical Cosmology, 1770-1870', Sociology, 10: 225-244.
- King, Helen (1998) Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece, London: Routledge, ch. 11.
- Marks, Harry (2006) '"Until the Sun of Science ... the true Apollo of Medicine has risen": Collective Investigation in Britain and America, 1880-1910', Medical History, 50: 157-66.
- Nance, Brian (2001) The Art of Medical Portraiture: Turquet de Mayerne as Baroque Physician, Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- Park, Katharine (1999) 'Natural Particulars: Medical Epistemology, Practice, and the Literature of Healing Springs', in Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi (eds), Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 347-67.
- Porter, Roy (1985) 'The Patient’s View: Doing Medical History from Below', Theory and Society, 14: 175-98.
- Pomata, Gianna (2005) 'Praxis Historialis: The Uses of Historia in Early-Modern Medicine', in Pomata and Siraisi (eds), Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early-Modern Europe, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 105-146.
- Risse, Guenter B. and John Harley Warner (1992) 'Reconstructing Clinical Activities: Patient Records in Medical History', Social History of Medicine, 5: 183-205.
- Stowe, Steven M. (2004) Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-nineteenth Century, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press.
- Sturdy, Steve (2007) 'Knowing Cases: Biomedicine in Edinburgh, 1887-1920', Social Studies of Science, 37: 659-89.
- Trevor-Roper, Hugh (2006) Europe’s Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
- Warner, John Harley (1999) 'The Uses of Patient Records by Historians—-Patterns, Possibilities and Perplexities', Health & History, 1: 101–11.
- Williams, Katherine (1990) 'Hysteria in Seventeenth-Century Case Records and Unpublished Manuscripts', History of Psychiatry, 1: 383-401.