Medicine and the market in England and its colonies, c.1450-c.1850
By: edited by Mark S. R. Jenner and Patrick Wallis.
Contributors: Jenner, Mark S. R.; Wallis, Patrick.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230506435
Subjects: Medical economics -- Great Britain -- History; Medical care -- Great Britain -- History; Medicine -- Great Britain -- History; Medical economics -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; Medical care -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; Medicine -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; Economics, Medical -- history -- England; Economics, Medical -- history -- India; Economics, Medical -- history -- New England; Delivery of Health Care -- history -- England; Delivery of Health Care -- history -- India; Delivery of Health Care -- history -- New England; History, Early Modern 1451-1600 -- England; History, Early Modern 1451-1600 -- India; History, Early Modern 1451-1600 -- New England; History, Modern 1601- -- England; History, Modern 1601- -- India; History, Modern 1601- -- New England
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The medical marketplace / Mark S. R. Jenner & Patrick Wallis; title: Medical economies in fifteenth-century England / Robert Ralley; title: Competition and cooperation in the early modern medical economy / Patrick Wallis; title: The rural medical marketplace in southern England c.1570-1720 / Ian Mortimer; title: Magic, alchemy, and the medical economy in early modern England: the case of Robert Fludd's magnetical medicine / Lauren Kassell; title: The marketplace of print / Mary Fissell; title: Recipe collections and the currency of medical knowledge in the early modern 'medical marketplace' / Elaine Leong and Sara Pennell; title: Midwifery in the 'medical marketplace' / Adrian Wilson; title: Illness in the 'social credit' and 'money' economies of eighteenth-century New England / Ben Mutschler; title: Medical marketplaces beyond the West: bazaar medicine, trade, and the English establishment in eighteenth century India / Pratik Chakrabarti; title: Monopoly, markets and public health: pollution and commerce in the history of London water 1780-1830 / Mark S. R. Jenner; title: 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.