A pioneering contribution to the cultural history of medicine exploring issues as diverse as dissection of the heart, childbirth, masturbation, animal care, hermaphrodites, orthopaedics, 'miracle' drugs, smallpox and sex advice in different European cultures from the 1600s to the present day. Each case study illustrates various roles of mediation; reconciling conflicting ideas in the medical encounter; as an instrument of domination, or conversely, of resistance. Roy Porter's brilliant foreword conveys the methodological significance as well as the pleasure of these essays.
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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
