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Medicine and the market in England and its colonies, c.1450-c.1850
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Medicine and the market in England and its colonies, c.1450-c.1850

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Based on papers presented at a workshop held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, in January 2005.

Contents

The medical marketplace / Mark S. R. Jenner and Patrick Wallis
Medical economies in fifteenth-century England / Robert Ralley
Competition and cooperation in the early modern medical economy / Patrick Wallis
The rural medical marketplace in southern England c.1570-1720 / Ian Mortimer
Magic, alchemy, and the medical economy in early modern England: the case of Robert Fludd's magnetical medicine / Lauren Kassell
The marketplace of print / Mary E. Fissell
Recipe collections and the currency of medical knowledge in the early modern 'medical marketplace' / Elaine Leong and Sara Pennell
Midwifery in the 'medical marketplace' / Adrian Wilson
Illness in the 'social credit' and 'money' economies of eighteenth-century New England / Ben Mutschler
Medical marketplaces beyond the West: bazaar medicine, trade, and the English establishment in eighteenth century India / Pratik Chakrabarti
Monopoly, markets and public health: pollution and commerce in the history of London water 1780-1830 / Mark S. R. Jenner
Medicine, quackery, and the free market: the 'war' against Morison's pills and the construction of the medical profession, c.1830-c.1850 / Michael Brown.

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