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Dr Sarah Ferber’s research interests include: demonic possession in early modern France, and modern Bioethics Dr Sarah Ferber’s research interests include: demonic possession in early modern France, and modern bioethics.
Dr Ferber holds a BA and PhD from the University of Melbourne and is a lecturer in History. She currently teaches an the following courses:
- Europe 1200-1800 (HIST1400), with Dr Marion Diamond
- Witchcraft and Demonology in Early Modern Europe and its Colonies (HIST2411)
- Supernatural Powers and Religious Reform: Western Europe 1400-1650 (HIST2410)
- Medicine and Culture: Bioethics in Historical Perspective, from 1850 to the present.
She has recently published Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France (for Routledge, UK), and is researching a book-length project Medicine and Culture: Bioethics in Historical Perspective, from 1850 to the present.
Dr Ferber has received a Commendation for Excellence in Teaching, University of Queensland, 2000 and a 2003 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award.
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