Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine: Mediating Medicine in Early Modern and Modern Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Medicine, Mediation and Meaning....Pages 1-10
De Affectibus Cordis et Palpitatione: Secrets of the Heart in Counter-Reformation Italy....Pages 11-35
Neighbours and Gossip in Early Modern Gynaecology....Pages 36-55
Seventeenth-century English Almanacs: Transmitters of Advice for Sick Animals....Pages 56-70
Consulting by Letter in the Eighteenth Century: Mediating the Patient’s View?....Pages 71-88
Medical Popularization and the Patient in the Eighteenth Century....Pages 89-107
Mediating Medicine through Private Letters: the Eighteenth-century Catalan Medical World....Pages 108-126
‘Mediating Sexual Difference’: the Medical Understanding of Human Hermaphrodites in Eighteenth-century England....Pages 127-147
Jules Guérin Makes his Market: the Social Economy of Orthopaedic Medicine in Paris, c. 1825–1845....Pages 148-170
Clashing Knowledge-claims in Nineteenth-century English Vaccination....Pages 171-191
Sex and the Doctors: the Medicalization of Sexuality as a Two-way Process in Early to Mid-Twentieth-century Britain....Pages 192-211
Hailing a Miracle Drug: the Interferon....Pages 212-232
Afterword: Cultural Differences in Medicine....Pages 233-237
Back Matter....Pages 238-241