Health and Science

How did privacy shape what we understand as health? The HEALTH AND SCIENCE theme investigates this question through an examination of how people dealt with illnesses and different forms of healing from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Following the entanglements of privacy with history of science and knowledge, the theme will focus on how strategies of privacy intertwined with the pursuit of knowledge and how the search for healing knowledge also demanded the infringement upon the privacy of others. We are particularly interested in the impact of colonialism on how health was defined, promoted, and restored. As such, the theme intersects also with colonial and maritime history. Moreover, the HEALTH AND SCIENCE theme deals with privacy negotiated at the thresholds between human and non-human animals and diverse ecosystems. In general, the theme focuses on historical agents that are action subjects in the production of healing knowledge, but also those that were subjected to these knowledge pursuits, particularly in regard to what role privacy played in enabling or disabling their agency. The team also aims to incorporate – but also question – methods of computational history to understand the complex relationship between privacy and health in a long-term perspective.

• Klein Käfer, Natacha. ‘Opinions: A Historical View of Privacy in the Maritime Context’. European Data Protection Law Review 10, no. 2 (2024): 143–45.

• Klein Käfer, Natacha and Natália da Silva Perez (eds.), ‘Practices of Privacy: Early Modern Knowledge in the Making’. Special issue, KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, vol. 8, no. 1-2.

• Klein Käfer, Natacha, and Natália da Silva Perez. ‘Privacy and Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Period’. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 8, no. 1–2 (March 2024): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1086/729628.

• Jakobsen, Jesper. ‘Urban Noise and Domestic Tranquility: Johann Peter Willebrand and the Notion of Public Order in Eighteenth-Century Altona’. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 8, no. 1–2 (March 2024): 11–41. https://doi.org/10.1086/729865.

• Poulsen, Frank Ejby, and Sanne Maekelberg. ‘Out of the Closet: Practices of Knowledge at the Devonshire Private Library in the Seventeenth Century’. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 8, no. 1–2 (March 2024): 43–80. https://doi.org/10.1086/730131.

• Perez, Natália da Silva. ‘Privacy in Prefaces to Epistolary Novels Published by Claude Barbin’. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 8, no. 1–2 (March 2024): 81–101. https://doi.org/10.1086/729611.

• Käfer, Natacha Klein. ‘Excising Superstition from Knowledge: August of Saxony’s Book of Healing Charms’. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 8, no. 1–2 (March 2024): 103–30. https://doi.org/10.1086/729575.

• Rojewski, Oskar J. ‘Raising, Educating, and Portraying Heirs to the Danish Throne at the Court of Margaret of Austria’. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 8, no. 1–2 (March 2024): 131–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/730178.

• Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024,.

• Klein Käfer, N. “Dynamics of Privacy at Sea: An introduction to privacy studies in maritime history” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35847-0_1.

• Foy, C. “Black Seamen’s Privacy in an ‘Anxious Atlantic’” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Polónia, A.; Capelão, R. “Women and Children on Board—The case of the Carreira da India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Da Silva Perez, N. “Privacy in Recife, Freedom in Amsterdam:  Juliana’s practical strategies of autonomy across the Atlantic” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Beck, C. “Breaching the Cabin Walls: Madness, privacy, and care at sea in the eighteenth-century British Navy” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• LeJacq, S.S. “‘Some Sly Corner’: Privacy and sodomitical space in the Georgian Royal Navy” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Schadner, P. “Anchors, Hearts & Crosses: Multiple ways of tattoo usage by seamen” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Araújo, H.A.F.F. “Secrecy, War, and Communication: Challenges and strategies of the General-Government of the State of Brazil in the second half of the seventeenth century” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Ceccarelli “The Spinola System for Maritime Postal Exchanges between the Madrid Nunciature and the Roman Curia” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Pizzorno, D. “A Very Secret Intelligence: The parallel espionage of the Republic of Genoa in the State of the Presìdi” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Humanes, J.M.M. “Seas, Galleys, and Laws: Antonio de Guevara’s Del arte de marear (1539)” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Aguilera-López, A. J. “‘[They] are not of any service, except for wasting wages and burning a lot of timber’: The soldiers of the guard of the Royal Shipyard of Barcelona (1575–1600)” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Bakic, J. “The Eastern Adriatic and Privacy in Sixteenth-Century Italian Travel Narratives” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Birkedal Bruun, , M.; Klein Käfer, N. “Pockets of Privacy in the Maritime World: An epilogue” in Klein Käfer, N., ed. Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Klein Käfer, N. and da Silva Perez, N., eds. Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024.

• Klein Käfer, N. and da Silva Perez, N. “Situating Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Context” in Klein Käfer, N. and da Silva Perez, N., eds. Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024.

• Da Silva Perez, N. “Lady Jane Lumley’s Private Education and its Political Resonances” in Klein Käfer, N. and da Silva Perez, N., eds. Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024.

• Bakic, J. “Camilla Herculiana (Erculiani):  Private Practices of Knowledge Production” in Klein Käfer, N. and da Silva Perez, N., eds. Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024.

• Lémonon-Waxin, I. “From behind the folding screen to the Collège de France:  Victorine de Chastenay’s privacy dynamics for knowledge in the making” in Klein Käfer, N. and da Silva Perez, N., eds. Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024.

• Weis, J: “‘Fait à mes heures de loisir’: Women’s private libraries as spaces of learning and knowledge production”in Klien Käfer, N. and da Silva Perez, N., eds. Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024.

• Klein Käfer, N. “Contingent Privacies: Knowledge Production and Gender Expectations from 1500 to 1800” in Klein Käfer, N. and da Silva Perez, N., eds. Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024.

• Da Silva Perez, N. and Klein Käfer, N. Creation, Control, Communication: A Historical Appraisal of Privacy in Knowledge Production – Special Issue for KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 7:1, 2023.

• Da Silva Perez, N. and Klein Käfer, N. “Between Concealment and Disclosure: Approaches to the History of Privacy in Knowledge-Making”. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 7:1, 2023, 1-9.

• Sumalvico. T. “How Private Is Religion? Theological Debates on Private and Public Religion as a Background for Woellner’s Edict on Religion in Late Eighteenth-Century Prussia”. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 7:1, 2023, 11-34.

• Richter, T. “The Forging of One’s Self: Inauthentic Signatures and the Privacy of Handwriting”. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 7:1, 2023, 35-59.

• Benison, L. “Negotiations at the Border of Knowledge: The Paradox of Privacy in Early Modern Utopia”. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 7:1, 2023, 61-89.

• Sasse, C. “‘A Proper Direction to Their Places of Abode’: Street Addressing and Wayfinding in England, ca. 1650–1850”.  KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 7:1, 2023, 91-112.

• De Laat, S. and Harms, D. “‘It’s a Kind of Magic’: Juggling Privacy and Prosecution for Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Magical Practitioners”. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 7:1, 2023, 113-135.

• Day, H. “Memorandums, of No Use to Any but the Owner”: Finding Value in Eighteenth-Century Pocket Memorandum Books”. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 7:1, 2023, 137-168.

• Borenstein, N., Stanczak, K. Ewa, Rolskov, T., Klein Käfer, N., da Silva Perez, N. & Augenstein, I. “Measuring Intersectional Biases in Historical Documents”. Findings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2711–2730, Vol. ACL 2023.

• Green, M.; Huysman, I.; Bakic, J.; Klein Käfer, N. “The Low Countries, Private Life, and Privacy” in Green, Michael, and Ineke Huysman, eds. Private Life and Privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023.

• Neighbors, D.; Klein Käfer, N. ”Zones of Privacy in Letters Between Women of Power: Elizabeth I of England and Anna of Saxony”. Royal Studies Journal 9:1, 28 June 2022, 60–89.

• Bičak, I. “Chops and Chamber Pots: Satire of the Experimental Report in Seventeenth-Century England” in Green, Michael, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, and Mette Birkedal Bruun, eds. Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

• Klein Käfer, N. “Dynamics of Healer-Patient Confidentiality in Early Modern Witch Trials” in Green, Michael, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, and Mette Birkedal Bruun, eds. Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches. Leiden: Brill, 2021.