1st Edition
Early Modern Medicine An Introduction to Source Analysis
Introduction
Olivia Weisser
Part 1: Institutions
1. The Transatlantic Business of Medicine
Zachary Dorner
2. Medicine in the Convent
Sharon T. Strocchia
3. The Curious Case of the Two Antonios: What Hospital Records Can and Cannot Tell Us
Elizabeth W. Mellyn
4. Legal Records in Early Modern Spain
Carolin Schmitz
5. Brotherhoods, Poor Relief, and Healthcare
Laurinda Abreu
Part 2: Medical Writing
6. Medical Casebooks
Lauren Kassell
7. Experimenting with Drugs
Alisha Rankin
8. An Imperial Doctor’s Guide to Bone Setting, 1742
Yi-Li Wu
9. Physicians’ Treatises: the Ottoman Case
Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
10. Missionary Remedies
Sebestian Kroupa
11. Vernacular Medical Print: Or How to Read a Recipe Book
Elaine Leong
Part 3: The Everyday
12. Life Writing
Olivia Weisser
13. Family Letters
Sandra Cavallo
14. Newspaper Advertisements from the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
Elise A. Mitchell
15. Disability History from Slavery’s Archive
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
16. Reproducing Ballads
Mary E. Fissell
Part 4: Objects & Images
17. Book Illustrations: Jane Sharp’s The Midwives Book
Rebecca Whiteley
18. Medicine Containers and Healing Vessels
Anna Winterbottom
Biography
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 1500s–1700s. 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.
