Lisa Smith
Ph.D. (Essex), M.A. (Alberta), B.A. Hons. (Alberta)
Associate Professor
Office: Arts 821
Phone: (306) 966-2583
Email: lisa.smith@usask.ca
Website: https://drc.usask.ca/projects/sloaneletters
Research
BOOK IN PROGRESS
Domestic Medicine: Gender, Health and the Household in Eighteenth-Century England and France
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The ways in which sufferers' experiences were shaped by their relationships with medical praticioners, family members and friends.
The practice of domestic medicine and caregiving by men and women.
The meanings and experience of infertility and impotence.
The gendered body and 'men's' and 'women's' illnesses.
The religious, social and cultural contexts of pain and illness.
The body and soul connection.
The supernatural world and the Enlightenment.
RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS
University of Saskatchewan President's SSHRC Grant, "Eighteenth-Century Medical Consultation Letters Online", online database and website development of Sir Hans Sloane's Medical and Scientific Correspondence (2010)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant: "D'Une Grossesse d'Homme and Other Family Matters: Men's Health in England and France (ca. 1675-1775" (2007 to 2011)
Publications
ARTICLES
"The Body Embarrassed? Rethinking the Leaky Male Body in Eighteenth-Century England and France", Gender and History, 23, 1 (2011): 26-46.
"Imagining Women's Fertility Before Technology", Journal of Medical Humanities, 31, 1 (2010): 69-79.
"'An Account of an Unaccountable Distemper': The Experience of Pain in Early Eighteenth-Century England and France", Eighteenth-Century Studies 41, 4 (2008): 459-480.
"The Relative Duties of a Man: Domestic Medicine in
“Reassessing the Role of the Family: Women’s Medical Care in Eighteenth-Century England”, Social History of Medicine 16, 3 (2003): 327-342.
CHAPTERS
"Secrets of Place: The Medical Casebooks of Vivant-Augustin Ganiare, ca. 1745-1750", in E. Leong and A. Rankin, Secrets and Knowledge: Medicine, Science and Commerce (1500-1800). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011.
“‘La Raillerie’ des Femmes? Les Femmes, La Sterilité et la Société en France à l’Époque Moderne”, pp. 203-220 in Femmes en Fleurs: Santé, Sexualité et Génération du Moyen Age aux Lumières, eds. C. McClive and N. Pellegrin. Saint-Etienne: Presses Universitaires de Saint-Etienne, 2010.
ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS
Sir Hans Sloane's Correspondence Online, September 2010 (https://drc.usask.ca/projects/sloaneletters/doku.php).
"French Recipe Collections" and "Remedes et Recettes Collections List", Recipes, Remedies, Receipts, January 2010 (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/research/recipes/).
