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Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine

Mediating Medicine in Early Modern and Modern Europe

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Willem Blécourt

    1. Huizinga Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Cornelie Usborne

    1. University of Surrey Roehampton, London, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Medicine, Mediation and Meaning

    • Willem de Blécourt, Cornelie Usborne
    Pages 1-10

  3. De Affectibus Cordis et Palpitatione: Secrets of the Heart in Counter-Reformation Italy

    • Catrien Santing
    Pages 11-35

  4. Neighbours and Gossip in Early Modern Gynaecology

    • Yaarah Bar-On
    Pages 36-55

  5. Seventeenth-century English Almanacs: Transmitters of Advice for Sick Animals

    • Louise Hill Curth
    Pages 56-70

  6. Consulting by Letter in the Eighteenth Century: Mediating the Patient’s View?

    • Micheline Louis-Courvoisier, Séverine Pilloud
    Pages 71-88

  7. Medical Popularization and the Patient in the Eighteenth Century

    • Michael Stolberg
    Pages 89-107

  8. Mediating Medicine through Private Letters: the Eighteenth-century Catalan Medical World

    • Alfons Zarzoso
    Pages 108-126

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

    • Palmira Fontes da Costa
    Pages 127-147

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

    • Constance Malpas
    Pages 148-170

  11. Clashing Knowledge-claims in Nineteenth-century English Vaccination

    • Logie Barrow
    Pages 171-191

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

    • Hera Cook
    Pages 192-211

  13. Hailing a Miracle Drug: the Interferon

    • Toine Pieters
    Pages 212-232

  14. Afterword: Cultural Differences in Medicine

    • Matthew Ramsey
    Pages 233-237

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 238-241
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About this book

A pioneering contribution to the cultural history of medicine exploring issues as diverse as dissection of the heart, childbirth, masturbation, animal care, hermaphrodites, orthopaedics, 'miracle' drugs, smallpox and sex advice in different European cultures from the 1600s to the present day. Each case study illustrates various roles of mediation; reconciling conflicting ideas in the medical encounter; as an instrument of domination, or conversely, of resistance. Roy Porter's brilliant foreword conveys the methodological significance as well as the pleasure of these essays.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Huizinga Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Willem Blécourt

  • University of Surrey Roehampton, London, UK

    Cornelie Usborne

About the editors

YAARAH BAR-ON Deputy Director, Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv University LOGIE BARROW Professor of British Social History and Political Traditions, University of Bremen, Germany HERA COOK Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney LOUISE HILL CURTH Lecturer, University of Exeter PALMIRA FONTES DA COSTA Assistant Professor, New University of Lisbon MICHELINE LOUIS-COURVOISIER Geneva Medical School CONSTANCE MALPAS Digital Initiatives Coordinator, New York Academy of Medicine TOINE PIETERS Assistant Professor, Free University of Amsterdam School of Medicine and Professor, Groningen University, the Netherlands SÉVERINE PILLOUD Researcher, Institut Universitaire Romand d'Histoire de la Médicine et de la Santé Publique, Lausanne, Switzerland ROY PORTER MATTHEW RAMSEY Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA CATRIEN SANTING Lecturer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands MICHAEL STOLBERG Professor of history of medicine at Munich University, Germany ALFONS ZARZOSO Researcher and curator of the Museum of the History of Medicine of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: Mediating Medicine in Early Modern and Modern Europe

  • Editors: Willem Blécourt, Cornelie Usborne

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287594

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1569-6Published: 18 December 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28759-4Published: 18 December 2003

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 241

  • Topics: European History, History of Science, Social History, Cultural History, History of Medicine

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