This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine. It provides an array of interpretive strategies while also highlighting new trends in the field.
Each chapter serves as a study of a different type of source, including the benefits and limitations of that source and what it can reveal about the history of medicine. Contributors provide practical strategies for locating and interpreting sources, putting texts and objects into conversation, and explaining potential contradictions. A wide variety of sources, including account books, legal records, and personal letters, provide new opportunities for understanding early modern medicine and developing skills in historical analysis. Together, the chapters highlight emerging methodologies and debates, while covering a range of themes in the field, from reproductive health to hospital care to household medicine.
With wide geographical breadth, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers looking to understand how to better engage with primary sources, as well as readers interested in early modern history and the history of medicine.
This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine.
Introduction Part 1: Instituions
1. The Transatlantic Business of
Medicine
2. Medicine in the Convent
3. The Curious Case of the Two Antonios:
What Hospital Records Can and Cannot Tell Us
4. Legal Records in Early Modern
Spain
5. Brotherhoods, Poor Relief, and Healthcare Part 2: Medical Writing
6.
Medical Casebooks
7. Experimenting with Drugs
8. An Imperial Doctors Guide
to Bone Setting, 1742
9. Physicians Treatises: the Ottoman Case
10.
Missionary Remedies
11. Vernacular Medical Print: Or How to Read a Recipe
Book Part 3: The Everyday
12. Life Writing
13. Family Letters
14. Newspaper
Advertisements from the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
15. Disability History
from Slaverys Archive
16. Reproducing Ballads Part 4: Objects & Images
17.
Book Illustrations: Jane Sharps The Midwives Book
18. Medicine Containers
and Healing Vessels
Olivia Weisser is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she teaches and writes about the history of health and healing in the 1500s1700s. Her first book, Ill Composed (2015), examined how gender shaped patients perceptions of sickness. She is finishing a new book on the history of venereal disease.
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