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Medicine and the market in England and its colonies, c.1450-c.1850 / edited by Mark S.R. Jenner and Patrick Wallis.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical economics--Great Britain--History.
- Medical economics.
- Medical care--Great Britain--History.
- Medical care.
- Medicine--Great Britain--History.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Colonies.
- History.
- Colonies.
- Great Britain.
- Medical economics--Colonies--Great Britain--History.
- Medical care--Colonies--Great Britain--History.
- Medicine--Colonies--Great Britain--History.
- Economics, Medical--history.
- England.
- India.
- New England.
- Delivery of Health Care--history.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Medical Subjects:
- Economics, Medical--history.
- England.
- India.
- New England.
- Delivery of Health Care--history.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 269 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- This volume provides the first systematic examination of medicine and the market in England, North America and India between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- Contents:
- The medical marketplace / Mark S. R. Jenner, Patrick Wallis
- Medical economies in fifteenth-century England / Robert Ralley
- Competition and cooperation in the early modern medical economy / Patrick Wallis
- The rural medical marketplace in southern England c.1570-1720 / Ian Mortimer
- Magic, alchemy and the medical economy in early modern England : the case of Robert Fludd's magnetical medicine / Lauren Kassell
- The marketplace of print / Mary E. Fissell
- Recipe collections and the currency of medical knowledge in the early modern 'medical marketplace' / Elaine Leong, Sara Pennell
- Midwifery in the 'medical marketplace' / Adrian Wilson
- Illness in the 'social credit' and 'money' economies of eighteenth-century New England / Ben Mutschler
- Medical marketplaces beyond the West : bazaar medicine, trade and the English establishment in eighteenth century India / Pratik Chakrabarti
- Monopoly, markets and public health : pollution and commerce in the history of London water 1780-1830 / Mark S. R. Jenner
- Medicine, quackery, and the free market : the 'war' against Morison's pills and the construction of the medical profession, c.1830-c.1850 / Michael Brown.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0230506437
- 9780230506435
- OCLC:
- 137295006
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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