Professor Emerita

Elizabeth A. Williams

Vita

• Publications

  Books

  • Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

  • A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2003.

  • The Physical and the Moral: Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

  Articles

  • “Eating after the Climacteric: Food, Gender and Ageing in the long Eighteenth Century.” In Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. James Kennaway and Rina Knoeff. London: Routledge, 2020, 67-85.
  • “Food and Feeling: ‘Digestive Force’ and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine.” In Vital Matters, ed. Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012, 203-221.
  • “The Sciences of Appetite, 1750-1850.” Special Issue, “Assimilating Knowledge: Food and Nutrition in Early Modern Physiologies.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Guest Editors E. C. Spary and Barbara Orland, 43, 2 (June 2012): 372-404.
  • “Stomach and Psyche: Eating, Digestion, and Mental Illness in the Medicine of Philippe Pinel.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 84, 3 (2010): 358-86.
  • “Gastronomy and the Diagnosis of Anorexia in Fin-de-siècle French Medicine.” In Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-siècle France: Bodies, Minds and Gender, ed. Christopher Forth and Elinor Accampo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 90-111.
  • “Of Two Lives One? Jean-Charles-Marguerite-Guillaume Grimaud and the Question of Holism in Vitalist Medicine.” Science in Context 21, 4 (2008): 593-613.
  • Gags, Funnels and Tubes: Forced Feeding of the Insane and of Suffragettes.” Endeavour 32, 4 (2008): 34-39.
  • “Neuroses of the Stomach: Eating, Gender, and Psychopathology in French Medicine, 1800-1870.” Isis 98 (March 2007): 54-79 [Winner of the Price-Webster Prize, History of Science Society, 2010: Best Article in Isis 2007-2009]
• Courses Taught

  Undergraduate

  • Western Civilization to 1500

  • Western Civilization, 1500-Present

  • Europe, 1815-1914

  • Modern Europe since 1914

  • France, 1815-Present

  • History of Medicine

  • Ideas and Ideologies in Modern Europe

  • Honors Freshman Seminar: Impact of Disease on History

  • Women in Western Civilization

  Graduate Seminars

  • Research Seminar in Modern European History

  • Reading Seminar: Women in Modern Europe

  • Reading Seminar:  War and Revolution in Modern Europe

  • Reading Seminar:  Ideas and Ideologies in Modern Europe

  • Reading Seminar:  Marxism: Past, Present, Future

  • Reading Seminar:  History of the Body

  • Reading Seminar:  Social and Cultural History of Modern Europe

  • Reading Seminar:  Languages of Science (team-taught and cross-listed with zoology)

• Professional Associations

  • History of Science Society

  • American Association for the History of Medicine