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Professor Sarah Ferber is an historian of early modern European religious history, contemporary religion, and modern medicine and bioethics. She is currently writing a general history of demonology and witchcraft in early modern Western Europe and its colonies.
Email: sferber@uow.edu.au
Phone: +61(0)409 123 992
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The Journal of Clinical Ethics
The Witchcraft Reader, 2019
Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits, 2002
Monash Bioethics Review, 2004
The term 'bioethics' is commonly associated with debates prompted by innovations ... more The term 'bioethics' is commonly associated with debates prompted by innovations in medical technology, yet the issues raised by bioethics are not that new. They concern the extent to which medicine and social morality exist in harmony or opposition--issues routinely addressed in the social history of medicine. This paper will argue that historical thinking, understood broadly, has a significant role to play in understanding relations between medicine and social morality, and therefore in contemporary bioethics. It explores past and present uses of metaphor and analogy in shaping perceptions of scientific innovation, and argues for the validity of apparently anachronistic thinking in our judgments of the past. The aims of this paper are ultimately pedagogical: to enable students to look at media reports about developments in medicine and biotechnology in order to problematise what are presented as the self-evident terms of current debate.
Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical ... more Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvested for research and therapeutic purposes, collected to turn into museum and other specimens, and then displayed, disposed of, and exchanged. This book examines the history of such activities, from the early nineteenth century through to the present, as they took place in hospitals, universities, workhouses, asylums and museums in England, Australia and elsewhere. Through a series of case studies, the volume reveals the changing scientific, economic and emotional value of corpses and their contested place in medical science
Into the Dark Night and Back, 2018
The Brisbane Line, 2005
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Social History of Medicine, 2013
FAQs, for journalists writing about exorcism and other interested people.
Punishment & Society, 2005
Abstract This article provides an analysis of R v Vollmer and Others, Australia's most famou... more Abstract This article provides an analysis of R v Vollmer and Others, Australia's most famous 'exorcism-manslaughter' case, in which a woman, Joan Vollmer, underwent an 'exorcism' performed by four people, resulting in her death. We examine how taken-for-granted distinctions ...
The Journal of Clinical Ethics
The Witchcraft Reader, 2019
Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits, 2002
Monash Bioethics Review, 2004
The term 'bioethics' is commonly associated with debates prompted by innovations ... more The term 'bioethics' is commonly associated with debates prompted by innovations in medical technology, yet the issues raised by bioethics are not that new. They concern the extent to which medicine and social morality exist in harmony or opposition--issues routinely addressed in the social history of medicine. This paper will argue that historical thinking, understood broadly, has a significant role to play in understanding relations between medicine and social morality, and therefore in contemporary bioethics. It explores past and present uses of metaphor and analogy in shaping perceptions of scientific innovation, and argues for the validity of apparently anachronistic thinking in our judgments of the past. The aims of this paper are ultimately pedagogical: to enable students to look at media reports about developments in medicine and biotechnology in order to problematise what are presented as the self-evident terms of current debate.
Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical ... more Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvested for research and therapeutic purposes, collected to turn into museum and other specimens, and then displayed, disposed of, and exchanged. This book examines the history of such activities, from the early nineteenth century through to the present, as they took place in hospitals, universities, workhouses, asylums and museums in England, Australia and elsewhere. Through a series of case studies, the volume reveals the changing scientific, economic and emotional value of corpses and their contested place in medical science
Into the Dark Night and Back, 2018
The Brisbane Line, 2005
skip nav. ...
Social History of Medicine, 2013
FAQs, for journalists writing about exorcism and other interested people.
Punishment & Society, 2005
Abstract This article provides an analysis of R v Vollmer and Others, Australia's most famou... more Abstract This article provides an analysis of R v Vollmer and Others, Australia's most famous 'exorcism-manslaughter' case, in which a woman, Joan Vollmer, underwent an 'exorcism' performed by four people, resulting in her death. We examine how taken-for-granted distinctions ...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This material may no... more Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This material may not be copied or reproduced without permission from Palgrave Macmillan
GUINEIS Journal: An interdisciplinary journal of North East India Studies, Volume VI, 2019, pp. 9-21 , 2019
History Workshop Online, 2021