A workshop with Mary Fissell
September 25 and 26, Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati
On the initiative of Prof. Lauren Kassell, and thanks to the organisation of Monica Morado Vazquez (convenor of the Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group), Prof. Mary Fissell visited the EUI to workshop the manuscript of her new book on the long history of abortion. Over two days, a small group of HEC researchers and professors discussed Mary Fissell’s manuscript, providing comments and suggestions for its revision. The book covers the history of abortion from Antiquity to the twentieth century. It uses an impressive amount of empirical cases to show how women have always sought abortions, and how abortion prohibition has never worked. It is also a book aimed at a wide public, and as such, it smoothly combines an educative and informative function with academically rigorous analyses. We are looking forward to seeing it published.
About the author: Mary E. Fissell is professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, with appointments in the history of science and the history departments. Her scholarly work focuses on how ordinary people in early modern England understood health, healing, and the natural world. She coedits the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
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chiara lacroix (October 26, 2023). The Long History of Abortion. EUI | History of Science and Medicine. Retrieved March 7, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/ol3o
