Prof. Mary Fissell

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Mary Fissell is Professor of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. She is an expert on the interaction between ordinary people and health in the early modern period, in particular being interested in connecting the histories of gender and the body with those of the medical marketplace. Some of her publications include Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England (2007) and Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol (1991).