elena.danieli.pd@gmail.com
Elena Danieli earned her PhD in History of Science from the Université Paris Cité and the University of Bologna, with a dissertation on the political history of medicine and midwifery during the French Revolution.
Her research interests range from the history of bodies and care practices to the history of medical education, gender history of science and knowledge, and the analysis of how health policies affect society, practitioners, patients – and especially women. She also worked on the social history of science and early modern European thought, with a particular focus on 17th century demonological studies.
She has studied at the University of Padua, University of Münster and Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, and she has worked as a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. In 2025, she was a Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
To learn more about Elena Danieli’s research interests, see this recent publication:
Danieli, Elena. 2024. “Obstetrics during the French Revolution: Political and Medical Controversies around the New Obstetrical Surgery.” Annals of Science, July, 1–30.