Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine

CORNELIE USBORNE is Reader in European History at Roehampton, University of Surrey. She has published widely on the history of reproduction, birth control and sexuality in Modern Germany. - WILLEM DE BLECOURT works as a historical anthropologist in Britain and the Netherlands. Among his many publications are works on alternative healing, witchcraft and werewolves.

• List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Medicine, Mediation and Meaning; W.de Blécourt and C.Usborne De Affectibus Cordis et Palpitatione: Secrets of the Heart in Counter-Reformation Italy; C.Santing Neighbours and Gossip in Early Modern Gynaecology; Y.Bar-On Seventeenth-century English Almanacs: Transmitters of Advice for Sick Animals; L.Curth Consulting by Letter in the Eighteenth century: Mediating the Patient's View?; M.Louis-Courvoisier and S.Pilloud Medical Popularization and the Patient in the Eighteenth century; M.Stolberg 'Mediating Sexual Difference': The Medical Understanding of Human Hermaphrodites in Eighteenth-century England; P.Fontes da Costa Mediating Medicine through Private Letters: The Eighteenth-century Catalan Medical World; A.Zarzoso Jules Guérin Makes his Market: The Social Economy of Orthopaedic Medicine in Paris, ca. 1825-1845; C.Malpas Clashing Knowledge-Claims in Nineteenth-century English Vaccination; L.Barrow Sex and the Doctors: The Medicalization of Sexuality as a Two-way Process in early to mid Twentieth-century Britain; H.Cook Hailing a Miracle Drug: The Interferon; T.Pieters Afterword: Cultural Differences in Medicine; M.Ramsey Index