Dr Philippa Carter
- University Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine and Health before 1800
About
- Director of Studies, Sidney Sussex College
- Fellow, Sidney Sussex College
- Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of History
Philippa Carter is a historian of early modern Europe and the Atlantic world (c. 1400–1800), with particular interests in medicine, natural knowledge, belief, and the body. She is currently working on a book entitled Frenzy: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul in Early Modern England. She is Associate Editor on the digital humanities project Reading Early Medicine.
Research interests
Early understandings of mental and physical illness; bodies and embodiment; mind/body relations; disability and visible difference; disease categorisation and diagnosis; the boundaries between natural philosophy, magic, and religion; sciences of the psyche.
Publications
'Childbirth, "Madness", and Bodies in History', History Workshop Journal, 91:1 (2021), 29–50.
'Work, Gender and Witchcraft in Early Modern England', Gender & History, early view (2023).
Forthcoming
‘Madness Embodied’, in The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Madness, vol. 4: A Cultural History of Madness in Early Modernity (1600–1789), ed. by Chiara Thumiger and Jonathan Sadowsky (London, 2024).