Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c. 1450–c. 1850

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
The Medical Marketplace....Pages 1-23
Medical Economies in Fifteenth-Century England....Pages 24-46
Competition and Cooperation in the Early Modern Medical Economy....Pages 47-68
The Rural Medical Marketplace in Southern England c. 1570–1720....Pages 69-87
Magic, Alchemy and the Medical Economy in Early Modern England: The Case of Robert Fludd’s Magnetical Medicine....Pages 88-107
The Marketplace of Print....Pages 108-132
Recipe Collections and the Currency of Medical Knowledge in the Early Modern ‘Medical Marketplace’....Pages 133-152
Midwifery in the ‘Medical Marketplace’....Pages 153-174
Illness in the ‘Social Credit’ and ‘Money’ Economies of Eighteenth-Century New England....Pages 175-195
Medical Marketplaces beyond the West: Bazaar Medicine, Trade and the English Establishment in Eighteenth-Century India....Pages 196-215
Monopoly, Markets and Public Health: Pollution and Commerce in the History of London Water 1780–1830....Pages 216-237
Medicine, Quackery and the Free Market: The ‘War’ against Morison’s Pills and the Construction of the Medical Profession, c. 1830–c. 1850....Pages 238-261
Back Matter....Pages 262-269