First Name
Kevin
Last Name
Siena
Email
ksiena@trentu.ca
Phone
705-748-1011 ext. 7139
Location
Champlain College I3
Campus
Peterborough
Job Title
Associate Professor
Accreditation
M.A. (Rochester); Ph.D. (Toronto)
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Areas of Expertise
Publications
“Contagion, Exclusion and Unique Medical World of the Eighteenth-Century Workhouse” in Jonathan Reinarz and L. D. Schwarz (eds.) in Medicine and the Workhouse (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013), pp. 19-39.
(with Alysa Levene,) “Reporting Dirt and Disease: Child Ill-Health in Eighteenth-Century England” Journal of Literature and Science 6 (1) (2013): 1-17.
“The Moral Biology of the Itch in Eighteenth-century Britain,” in Reinarz and Siena (eds.) A Medical History of Skin: Scratching the Surface (London, Pickering and Chatto, 2013), pp. 71-84.
“ ‘The Venereal Disease,’ 1500-1800” in Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher (eds.) The Routledge History of Sex and the Body, 1500 to the Present (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 463-478.
“Searchers of the Dead in the Eighteenth Century” in Lori Woods and Kim Kippen (eds.) Gender and Marginality in Pre-modern Europe, (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2011), pp. 123-152.
“Hospitals for the Excluded or Convalescent Homes?: workhouses, medicalization and the poor law in long eighteenth-century London and pre-Confederation Toronto.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Volume 27 (1) (2010): 5-25
“Pliable Bodies: The Moral Biology of Health and Disease in the Enlightenment”, in Carole Reeves (ed.) Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Berg, 2010), pp. 33-52
“Suicide as an Illness Strategy in the Long Eighteenth Century” in John Weaver and David Wright (eds.) Histories of Suicide: International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 53-72.
“Stage Managing a Hospital in the Eighteenth Century: Visitation at the London Lock Hospital,” in Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz (eds.), Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on Hospital and Asylum Visiting, (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009), pp. 175-98.
“The Strange Medical Silence on Same-Sex Transmission of the Pox c. 1660-c.1760” in G. S. Rousseau and Kenneth Borris (eds.) The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2007), pp. 115-33.
(with Alysa Levene,) “Reporting Dirt and Disease: Child Ill-Health in Eighteenth-Century England” Journal of Literature and Science 6 (1) (2013): 1-17.
“The Moral Biology of the Itch in Eighteenth-century Britain,” in Reinarz and Siena (eds.) A Medical History of Skin: Scratching the Surface (London, Pickering and Chatto, 2013), pp. 71-84.
“ ‘The Venereal Disease,’ 1500-1800” in Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher (eds.) The Routledge History of Sex and the Body, 1500 to the Present (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 463-478.
“Searchers of the Dead in the Eighteenth Century” in Lori Woods and Kim Kippen (eds.) Gender and Marginality in Pre-modern Europe, (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2011), pp. 123-152.
“Hospitals for the Excluded or Convalescent Homes?: workhouses, medicalization and the poor law in long eighteenth-century London and pre-Confederation Toronto.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Volume 27 (1) (2010): 5-25
“Pliable Bodies: The Moral Biology of Health and Disease in the Enlightenment”, in Carole Reeves (ed.) Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Berg, 2010), pp. 33-52
“Suicide as an Illness Strategy in the Long Eighteenth Century” in John Weaver and David Wright (eds.) Histories of Suicide: International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 53-72.
“Stage Managing a Hospital in the Eighteenth Century: Visitation at the London Lock Hospital,” in Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz (eds.), Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on Hospital and Asylum Visiting, (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009), pp. 175-98.
“The Strange Medical Silence on Same-Sex Transmission of the Pox c. 1660-c.1760” in G. S. Rousseau and Kenneth Borris (eds.) The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2007), pp. 115-33.
Areas of Research
Early modern Britain; history of medicine; disease and the poor in the 18th century; workhouses, history of sexuality, esp. sexually transmitted disease.
Media Database
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