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

List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Medicine, Mediation and Meaning;
W.de Blécourt and C.Usborne De Affectibus Cordis et Palpitatione: Secrets of the Heart in Counter-Reformation Italy;
C.Santing Neighbours and Gossip in Early Modern Gynaecology;
Y.Bar-On Seventeenth-century English Almanacs: Transmitters of Advice for Sick Animals;
L.Curth Consulting by Letter in the Eighteenth century: Mediating the Patient's View?;
M.Louis-Courvoisier and S.Pilloud Medical Popularization and the Patient in the Eighteenth century;
M.Stolberg 'Mediating Sexual Difference': The Medical Understanding of Human Hermaphrodites in Eighteenth-century England;
P.Fontes da Costa Mediating Medicine through Private Letters: The Eighteenth-century Catalan Medical World;
A.Zarzoso Jules Guérin Makes his Market: The Social Economy of Orthopaedic Medicine in Paris, ca. 1825-1845;
C.Malpas Clashing Knowledge-Claims in Nineteenth-century English Vaccination;
L.Barrow Sex and the Doctors: The Medicalization of Sexuality as a Two-way Process in early to mid Twentieth-century Britain;
H.Cook Hailing a Miracle Drug: The Interferon;
T.Pieters Afterword: Cultural Differences in Medicine;
M.Ramsey Index

YAARAH BAR-ON Deputy Director, Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv University
LOGIE BARROW Professor of British Social History and Political Traditions, University of Bremen, Germany
HERA COOK Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney
LOUISE HILL CURTH Lecturer, University of Exeter
PALMIRA FONTES DA COSTA Assistant Professor, New University of Lisbon
MICHELINE LOUIS-COURVOISIER Geneva Medical School
CONSTANCE MALPAS Digital Initiatives Coordinator, New York Academy of Medicine
TOINE PIETERS Assistant Professor, Free University of Amsterdam School of Medicine and Professor, Groningen University, the Netherlands
SÉVERINE PILLOUD Researcher, Institut Universitaire Romand d'Histoire de la Médicine et de la Santé Publique, Lausanne, Switzerland
ROY PORTER
MATTHEW RAMSEY Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
CATRIEN SANTING Lecturer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
MICHAEL STOLBERG Professor of history of medicine at Munich University, Germany
ALFONS ZARZOSO Researcher and curator of the Museum of the History of Medicine of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain