Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine

Chapter 1 Medicine, Mediation and Meaning

Chapter 2 De Affectibus Cordis et Palpitatione: Secrets of the Heart in Counter-Reformation Italy

Chapter 3 Neighbours and Gossip in Early Modern Gynaecology

Chapter 4 Seventeenth-century English Almanacs: Transmitters of Advice for Sick Animals

Chapter 5 Consulting by Letter in the Eighteenth Century: Mediating the Patient’s View?

Chapter 6 Medical Popularization and the Patient in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 8 ‘Mediating Sexual Difference’: the Medical Understanding of Human Hermaphrodites in Eighteenth-century England

Chapter 9 Jules Guérin Makes his Market: the Social Economy of Orthopaedic Medicine in Paris, c. 1825–1845

Chapter 10 Clashing Knowledge-claims in Nineteenth-century English Vaccination

Chapter 11 Sex and the Doctors: the Medicalization of Sexuality as a Two-way Process in Early to Mid-Twentieth-century Britain

Chapter 12 Hailing a Miracle Drug: the Interferon

Chapter 13 Afterword: Cultural Differences in Medicine