Medicine and the Market in England and Its Colonies, C. 1450-C. 1850

Name: Medicine and the Market in England and Its Colonies, C. 1450-C. 1850
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ISBN: 9780230506435

ISBN-10: 0230506437

ISBN-13: 9780230506435

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mark S. R. Jenner, Patrick Wallis, Mark S. Jenner

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What was the medical marketplace? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and British India.

Book details

List price: $139.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 9/12/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 269
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



List of Tables, Figures and Illustrations


Preface


List of Abbreviations


Notes on Contributors



The Medical Marketplace




Medical Economies in Fifteenth-Century England




Competition and Cooperation in the Early Modern Medical Economy




The Rural Medical Marketplace in Southern England c. 1570-1720




Magic, Alchemy and the Medical Economy in Early Modern England: The Case of Robert Fludd's Magnetical Medicine




The Marketplace of Print




Recipe Collections and the Currency of Medical Knowledge in the Early Modern 'Medical Marketplace'




Midwifery in the 'Medical Marketplace'




Illness in the 'Social Credit' and 'Money' Economies of Eighteenth-Century New England




Medical Marketplaces beyond the West: Bazaar Medicine, Trade and the English Establishment in Eighteenth-Century India




Monopoly, Markets and Public Health: Pollution and Commerce in the History of London Water 1780-1830




Medicine, Quackery and the Free Market: The 'War' against Morison's Pills and the Construction of the Medical Profession, c. 1830-c. 1850



Index