Physick and the family

Alun Withey is an historian and researcher, and lectures in Early Modern History at the University of Glamorgan and Swansea University.

• AppendicesIntroductionI. Disease and mortality in early modern Wales1. ‘Fruits of sin, forerunners of dissolution’: sickness and disease in early modern WalesII. Medical knowledge in early modern Wales2. The Welsh body and popular medical culture3. Medicine, oral and print culture4. An economy of knowledge: social networks and the spread of medical informationIII. Domestic sickness and care in the Welsh home5. Care and the Welsh medical home6. Sickness experience and the ‘sick role'7. Caring for the sick8. ‘Neighbourliness’ and the medical community9. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Alun Withey's first book is a wide-ranging and spirited, yet also rounded and original contribution to the social history of British...Withey has achieved more than enough already in this valuable and often fascinating book.'Robert Allan Houston, Social History of Medicine, vol 25, no 3,'This very welcome book is brimming full of suggestions setting medical history in a rich new context. It will also give historians of Wales itself and their students plenty to think about, and to argue with. The bibliography is excellent.'Michael Roberts, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2012, 86‘Readers will be impressed by the breadth of Withey’s research. His command over a wide range of primary services is admirable’Alun Roberts, Morganwg: The Journal of Glamorgan History, Volume LVI 2012Short-listed for 2013 the Longman / History Today Book of the Year award