
Casebooks Project
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A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 | Directed by @laurenkassell @CambridgeHPS | Funded by the Wellcome Trust
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“Astrologaster succeeds on the strength of its writing, and by its respect and understanding for early modern medical practices and the people who used them.” Thank you @the_emilyap for lovely review! And for flagging research behind the game. #histmed Lauren Kassell


Join Katharine Neil, Lauren Kassell of Casebooks Project and myself tomorrow on /r/NintendoSwitch for an ‘Ask me anything’. Looking forward to your questions.


AMA (Ask Me Anything) about Astrologaster is live. Nyamyam Katharine Neil #histmed #histsci Casebooks Project Cambridge HPS reddit.com/r/NintendoSwit…


"I found the page where they begin again in May 1614. Maybe everything will begin again in May 2021." Lyrical meditation by Lauren Kassell about her experience of COVID pandemic interruptions and a long gap in the astrologer-physican Richard Napier's early 17th-c records

Hi! Welcome to #indiegame moments! Today's game is #astrologaster by Nyamyam on #Switch nintendo.com/games/detail/a… also on #PC #macOS Wamblam'ing Retro Indie DanVanDam 🕹️🎮 🖱️🏳️🌈 Indie World Order™ | #IWOCon 2 #VarietyStreamer IndieLoversUnited

For everyone who ever heard Lauren Kassell talk about digitizing Forman's and Napier's casebooks, this is where she wrote it all down. #histmed #earlymodern #astrology #digitalhumanities

What does it mean to make a new archive out of an old one? In her @jhokjournal paper, Lauren Kassell describes how Casebooks Project transformed consultations recorded by astrologer-physicians Simon Forman & Richard Napier into the Casebooks Digital Edition. doi.org/10.5334/jhk.31

Lovely piece by Philippa Carter about her recent HWJ article on #earlymodern #childbirth #madness #bodies and questions about parallels with C21st diagnoses of #postpartumpsychosis. Casebooks Project Jo Losing Minds historyworkshop.org.uk/losing-minds/ via History Workshop

V happy to see PRAYER & PHYSIC IN C17th ENGLAND by me & Rob Ralley (of Casebooks Project) in 12.21 ESM @Brillpublishing in fantastic collection on #AngelicalConjunctions ed. #AslıhanGürbüzel & #FaithWallis #histmed #histreligion History at EUI Cambridge HPS brill.com/view/journals/…

Hang on hang on, obviously fever cloth is a thing (???), but what’s with the hair removal? Renaissance Skin The Recipes Project

#Astrologaster, the Nyamyam video game inspired by our Casebooks Project Project, is featured in the British Library #exhibition Digital Storytelling! Join Professor Lauren Kassell with the game developer & musicians on 15 September to hear about it! bl.uk/events/digital…


Playing 🎮with ... history! Lauren Kassell contributed to the creation of the Astrologaster videogame - inspired by her Casebooks Project project The game is now featured at a British Library exhibition on #DigitalStorytelling 👉 bl.uk/events/digital… 📢 #HistSci #Astrologaster


A highlight of British Library's #DigitalStorytelling exhibition is Astrologaster by Nyamyam & Casebooks Project. Join us for a fireside chat with ❌ & Lauren Kassell on Friday 15th September followed by singers performing songs from the soundtrack blogs.bl.uk/digital-schola…

Please retweet: Interested in #drawing #Rome #seeing #history #architecture #more? Check out drawingrome.com Dave Shelton @sietske_fransen Bill Sherman @HPSWarburgian @the_bsr

Casebooks therapy is back! Excited to be organising this monthly workshop with Lauren Kassell. We’ll be reading selected cases using the digital edition Casebooks Project. Dm or email me for the zoom link History at EUI


Thank you jakubochocinski.bsky.social for organising the first session of #casebookstherapy Casebooks Project. Thank you Philippa Carter Jo Luis Ribeiro and everyone else for coming along. Newcomers always welcome.


Prof Lauren Kassell is delivering the 2024 SSHM Lecture. 'Why Astrological Medicine Doesn't Work: Reflections on How to Write the Histories of Science and Medicine' 🗓️Mon 2 December 🕰️4:00 - 5:30pm (GMT) Online - All Welcome Casebooks Project #histmed eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sshm-lec…

I'm not here, but I will be on Zoom today, 2 Dec, to talk about astrological medicine and the SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social) Roy Porter Essay Prize #histmed #histsci #earlymodern History at EUI Cambridge HPS Casebooks Project eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sshm-lec…