Studies of Forman and Napier
For introductory biographical information see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entries on Forman and Napier.
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.
Kassell, Lauren (2011) ‘Simon Forman: The Astrologer’s Tables’, History Today, 61 (issue 9): 18–25.
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 in Shakespeare’s Age, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Sawyer, Ronald (1986) ‘Patients, Healers and Disease in the Southeast Midlands, 1597–1634’, PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin.
Traister, Barbara (1989) ‘Medicine and Astrology in Elizabethan England: The Case of Simon Forman’, Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, II: 279–97.
Traister, Barbara (2001) The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Selected 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, MA: 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, MA: Harvard University Press.
Entralgo, Pedro Laín (1950) La historia clínica: historia y teoría del relato patográfico, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
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, MA: MIT Press, 347–67.
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, MA: MIT Press, 105–146.
Pomata, Gianna (2010) ‘Sharing Cases: The Observationes in Early Modern Medicine’, Early Science and Medicine, 15: 193–236.
Porter, Roy (1985) ‘The Patient’s View: Doing Medical History from Below’, Theory and Society, 14: 175–98.
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, NC: 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.
