Lauren Kassell is Professor of History of Science at the Department of History at the European University Institute and Professor of History of Science and Medicine at the Department of History and Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

She is a historian of science and medicine, with expertise focused on everyday medicine and the occult sciences in early modern England, extending to the history of generation and reproduction, and encompassing digital humanities. As General Editor of The Cambridge History of Medicine, 6 Volumes, she is leading an ambitious and inclusive reassessment of the field. Her new project, How to Live Forever, asks how understandings and realities of ageing and the end of life have changed through history.

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Fields of expertise

Early modern history Renaissance Enlightenment 16th century (Sixteenth century) 17th century (Seventeenth century) 18th century (Eighteenth century) Material culture Gender and sexuality Intellectual history History of medicine Cultural history Public history Digital history Europe in the world History of emotions History of science

Recent research output

KASSELL, Lauren (2021), Cases, Contribution to book
KASSELL, Lauren (2021), Inscribed, coded, archived : digitizing early modern medical casebooks, Article
KASSELL, Lauren (2021), Going nowhere : routines in a pandemic, Article
KASSELL, Lauren; RALLEY, Robert (2021), Prayer and physic in seventeenth-century England, Article