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.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2003

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9781349512393, 9781403915696

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Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
More than a Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1 Medicine, Mediation and Meaning
2 De Affectibus Cordis et Palpitatione: Secrets of the Heart in Counter-Reformation Italy
3 Neighbours and Gossip in Early Modern Gynaecology
4 Seventeenth-century English Almanacs: Transmitters of Advice for Sick Animals
5 Consulting by Letter in the Eighteenth Century: Mediating the Patient’s View?
6 Medical Popularization and the Patient in the Eighteenth Century
7 Mediating Medicine through Private Letters: the Eighteenth-century Catalan Medical World
8 ‘Mediating Sexual Difference’: the Medical Understanding of Human Hermaphrodites in Eighteenth-century England
9 Jules Guérin Makes his Market: the Social Economy of Orthopaedic Medicine in Paris, 1825–1845
10 Clashing Knowledge-claims in Nineteenth-century English Vaccination
11 Sex and the Doctors: the Medicalization of Sexuality as a Two-way Process in Early to Mid-Twentieth-century Britain
12 Hailing a Miracle Drug: the Interferon
13 Afterword: Cultural Differences in Medicine
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