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| Preface | |
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| List of contributors | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Medicine in western Europe in 1500 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rome and Europe in 1500 | |
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| The organization of medical practice | |
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| The medical knowledge of the ancient Greeks | |
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| The making of the learned doctor in medieval Europe | |
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| Christianity and healing | |
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| The old and the new | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The sick and their healers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Medical care: its economy and control | |
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| The maintenance of health | |
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| Women as healers | |
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| Leonardo Fioravanti: a sixteenth-century itinerant healer | |
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| Barber-surgeons, surgeons and apothecaries | |
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| The skills and career of a physician: Girolamo Cardano | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The medical renaissance of the sixteenth century: Vesalius, medical humanism and bloodletting | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Renaissance and medical humanism | |
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| Bloodletting | |
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| Humanism, bloodletting and a new medical controversy | |
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| Andreas Vesalius | |
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| The Fabrica | |
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| Vesalius' legacy | |
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| Medicine and religion in sixteenth-century Europe | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Medicine and religion in the later Middle Ages | |
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| Medicine and the Reformation | |
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| The Reformation, the Counter-Reformation and attitudes to popular and sacred healing | |
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| Paracelsus and Paracelsianism | |
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| Religion and epidemics | |
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| Health care | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Chemical medicine and the challenge to Galenism: the legacy of Paracelsus, 1560-1700 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Paracelsian revolution, 1560-1640 | |
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| The new challenge of Helmontianism, 1650-1700 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Policies of health: diseases, poverty and hospitals | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Diseases and society | |
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| Hospitals | |
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| Public health in the eighteenth century: the Habsburg territories and the German lands | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Old and new models of the body | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Harvey and the circulation of the blood | |
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| The mechanical body | |
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| Glands everywhere: the body according to Malpighi | |
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| The body expressed in numbers | |
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| The power of patients | |
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| The sensible body | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Women and medicine | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A different body? | |
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| Questions of generation | |
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| Childbirth: from female ceremony to male medical practice | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The care and cure of mental illness | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Richard Napier and his patients: a case study | |
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| Caring for the mad in eighteenth-century Europe: a 'psychiatric dark age'? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| War, medicine and the military revolution | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Changes to warfare in the early modern period | |
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| New wounds and old diseases | |
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| Surgical treatment of gunshot wounds | |
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| Wounds to the head and the disappearance of the helmet | |
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| Treatment of burns | |
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| Amputations | |
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| Foot rot and shell shock | |
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| Scurvy | |
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| Hygiene | |
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| Military hospitals | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Environment, health and population | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Airs, waters, places | |
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| Analysing places, analysing populations | |
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| Changing populations? The case of inoculation | |
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| Changing places? Hygiene and improvement | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Medicine and health in the age of European colonialism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The biological effects of European colonialism | |
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| Climate, place and health | |
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| Perceptions of health and new environments in the early English settlements of North America | |
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| Systems of medical care in the Spanish and English colonies | |
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| Remedies and medical contact between the old and new worlds | |
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| The exchange of medical knowledge | |
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| Medicine and slavery | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Organization, training and the medical marketplace in the eighteenth century | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The organization of licensed medical practice | |
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| The distribution of licensed medical practitioners: the case of France | |
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| Medical training | |
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| The medical marketplace | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |