Samantha Sandassie

Ph.D. Candidate/Teaching Fellow

E-mail:  7sss1@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-2150
Fax: 613-533-6298
Office: Watson 102
Office hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:30, Friday from 1:00-3:00 and by appointment  

 

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Education

MA, History, York University, 2008
BA (hons), History and Political Science, McMaster University, 2007

About

My dissertation explores the state of English surgery from 1590-1715. The period constitutes a critical epoch in the history of medicine in terms of theoretical, practical, and organizational improvements. I intend to reconstruct an account of early modern surgery that places conceptions of the body, disease, and therapeutics in their temporal and social contexts. In particular, I will be interested in discerning the professional relationship between surgeons, patients and other medical practitioners, and how this relationship may have been affected by the events of the 17^th century..

Publications

Sandassie, Samantha. "Evidence-Based Medicine? Patient Case Studies in English Surgical Treatises, 1660-1700." Medical Humanities 34,1 (2008), 11-18.

Conference Papers:

Sandassie, Samantha. “On Pins, Needles and Electrotherapy: Acupuncture in Victorian Britain,” paper presented at the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine Conference, Montreal, QC, 2010.

Courses taught:

History 121: Intellectual Origins of the Contemporary West
History 390: Health and Happiness in Early Modern England