What was the medical marketplace? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and British India. Chapters explore the most important themes in the social history of medicine and offer a fresh understanding of healthcare in this time of social and economic transformation.

'For over two decades now, the idea of a medical marketplace has been a vital shaping influence on historians seeking to understand the nature of health provision in pre-modern societies. Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450- c.1850 provides a splendid critical re-evaluation of the concept. Suggestive, intelligently written and based on primary research across a wide field, this is a volume which no historian of medicine and no specialist of early modern England can afford to be without.' - Professor Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London

'Individually the essays make striking contributions to the literature, and collectively mark a considerable leap forward in analysing the medical marketplace over a long time frame. My students have been clamouring for such a volume for many years.' - Professor Hilary Marland, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, UK

Autorentext
MICHAEL BROWNi Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of Kent, UK PRATIK CHAKRABARTI Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Modern Medicine, School of History, University of Kent. UK MARY E. FISSELL Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, USA MARK S. R. JENNER Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of York, UK LAUREN KASSELL Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK ELAINE LEONG Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Warwick, UK IAN MORTIMER Honorary Research Fellow, University of Exeter, UK BEN MUTSCHLER Assistant Professor of Histor, Oregon State University, USA SARA PENNELL Lecturer in Early Modern British History, Roehampton University, UK ROBERT RALLEY Wellcome Research Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK PATRICK WALLIS Lecturer in the Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK ADRAIN WILSON Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK

Inhalt
The Medical Marketplace; M.S.R.Jenner & P.Wallis Medical Economies in Fifteenth-Century England ; R.Ralley Competition and Cooperation in the Early Modern Medical Economy ; P.Wallis The Rural Medical Marketplace in Southern England c.1570-1720; I.Mortimer Magic, Alchemy and the Medical Economy in Early Modern England: The Case of Robert Fludd's Magnetical Medicine; L.Kassell The Marketplace of Print ; M.Fissell Recipe Collections and the Currency of Medical Knowledge in the Early Modern 'Medical Marketplace'; E.Leong & S.Pennell Midwifery in the 'Medical Marketplace'; A.Wilson Illness in the 'Social Credit' and 'Money' Economies of Eighteenth-Century New England; B.Mutschler Medical Marketplaces beyond the West: Bazaar Medicine, Trade and the English Establishment in Eighteenth Century India ; P.Chakrabarti Monopoly, Markets and Public Health: Pollution and Commerce in the History of London Water 1780-1830; M.S.R.Jenner Medicine, Quackery and the Free Market: The 'War' Against Morison's Pills and the Construction of the Medical Profession, c.1830-c.1850; M.Brown