Natacha Klein Kafer
Assistant Professor
Section of Church History
Karen Blixens Plads 16
2300 København S
I am currently researching the interplay between health and privacy in the early modern period and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Beyond medical discourse on privacy, I focus on how popular healing knowledge survived in the private sphere despite the efforts to suppress these practices, paying particular attention to the relationship between popular healing and “official” medical knowledge, witch trials, the legal framing of healing practices, and colonial encounters. I am particularly interested in how health is framed in trans-continental and trans-imperial contexts of healing knowledge transmission and the cross-connections between health, death, superstition, secrecy, and privacy.
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Zones of Privacy in Letters between Women of Power: Elizabeth I of England and Anna of Saxony
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Pockets of Privacy in the Maritime World: An Epilogue
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Dynamics of healer-patient confidentiality in early modern witch trials
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