An investigation of the role which the English book trade played in an important transitional period in early modern medicine.

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practiti

In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.

Physicians have had a major role in framing the middle-class values of modern western society, especially those relating to the professions. This book questions

What was the medical marketplace? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and