Dr. Andrea Rusnock
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1990
M.A., Princeton University, 1985
B.A., Brown University, 1982
Research Interests:
Science and medicine in the Enlightenment, quantification, public health. My current research project is on the history of vaccination.
Courses Taught:
- HIS 116 - History of Western Science
- HIS 117 - History of Medicine
- HIS 314 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century European Cultural History
- HIS 351 - History of Women in Medicine
- HIS 401 - Advanced Topics in European History (Disease and Public Health in Modern History)
- HIS 495 - Seminar in History
- HIS 506 - Graduate Seminar in European History (The Enlightenment)
Publications:
BOOKS
Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France (Cambridge University Press, 2002).Women, Gender, and the History of Science Syllabus Sampler, compiled and edited (History of Science Society Publications, 1999).
The Correspondence of James Jurin (1684-1750), Physician and Secretary to the Royal Society, edited with an introduction, notes, and calendar of correspondence, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1996).
ARTICLES
"Making Sense of Vaccination ca. 1800," in Crafting Immunity: Working Histories of Clinical Immunology, ed. Kenton Kroker, Jennifer Keelan, and Pauline M.H. Mazumdar (Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008), 17-28.
"Medical Statistics and Hospital Medicine: The Case of Smallpox Vaccination," Centaurus 49 (2007): 337-359.
“Quantifying Infant Mortality in Eighteenth-Century England and France,” in Body Counts: Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives/La quantification médicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques, ed. Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel and George Weisz (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, in press).
"'Merchant's Logick': Numerical Debates over Smallpox Inoculation in Eighteenth-Century England," The Road to Medical Statistics, ed. Eileen Magnello and Anne Hardy (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi Press, 2002), 37-54.
"Hippocrates, Bacon, and Medical Meteorology at the Royal Society, 1700-1750," Hippocrates and Modern Medicine, ed. David Cantor, (Ashgate Press, 2001), 144-161.
"Correspondence Networks and the Royal Society," British Journal for the History of Science 32 (1999):155-69.
"Biopolitics and the Mathematics of Population: Medical and Political Arithmetic in the Eighteenth Century," in The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, ed. William Clark, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
"The Weight of Evidence and the Burden of Authority: Case Histories, Medical Statistics, and Smallpox Inoculation," in Medicine in the Enlightenment, ed. Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1995), 289-315.
"Quantification, Precision, and Accuracy: Determinations of Population in the Ancient Regime," in The Values of Precision, ed. M. Norton Wise (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 17-38.
Contact Information:
Department of History
University of Rhode Island
80 Upper College Road, Suite 3
Kingston, RI 02881
Office: 118 Washburn
Phone: 401.874.9021
Email: rusnock@uri.edu
