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Medicine and the market in England and its colonies, c.1450-c.1850

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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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Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Description

xiii, 269 p.; 23 cm.

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Medical economics > Colonies > Great Britain > History
Medical care > Colonies > Great Britain > History
Medical care > Great Britain > History
Medical economics > Great Britain > History
Medicine > Colonies > Great Britain > History
Medicine > Great Britain > History

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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