Medicine and the Market in Ealry Modern

What was the medical marketplace? What is a 'medical marketplace'? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and British India. The chapters cover the most important themes in the social history of medicine from the fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, addressing health care in town and country, among rich and poor, women and men, and examining both patients and practitioners. Drawing on recent developments in the history of exchange, they offer new understandings of the ways in which diverse aspects of health care operated and changed in this period of social and economic transformation. Each chapter presents substantial new research in an accessible style and offers significant new interpretations of its field based upon a critical examination of the applicability of the medical marketplace model. Book jacket.

MARK S. R. JENNER is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York

PATRICK WALLIS is Lecturer in Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

List of Tables, Figures and Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
The Medical Marketplace	p. 1
Medical Economies in Fifteenth-Century England	p. 24
Competition and Cooperation in the Early Modern Medical Economy	p. 47
The Rural Medical Marketplace in Southern England c. 1570-1720	p. 69
Magic, Alchemy and the Medical Economy in Early Modern England: The Case of Robert Fludd's Magnetical Medicine	p. 88
The Marketplace of Print	p. 108
Recipe Collections and the Currency of Medical Knowledge in the Early Modern 'Medical Marketplace'	p. 133
Midwifery in the 'Medical Marketplace'	p. 153
Illness in the 'Social Credit' and 'Money' Economies of Eighteenth-Century New England	p. 175
Medical Marketplaces beyond the West: Bazaar Medicine, Trade and the English Establishment in Eighteenth-Century India	p. 196
Monopoly, Markets and Public Health: Pollution and Commerce in the History of London Water 1780-1830	p. 216
Medicine, Quackery and the Free Market: The 'War' against Morison's Pills and the Construction of the Medical Profession, c. 1830-c. 1850	p. 238
Index	p. 262
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