Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine: Mediating Medicine in Early Modern and Modern Europe Book

	List of Illustrations
	More than a Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Notes on Contributors
1	Medicine, Mediation and Meaning	1
2	De Affectibus Cordis et Palpitatione: Secrets of the Heart in Counter-Reformation Italy	11
3	Neighbours and Gossip in Early Modern Gynaecology	36
4	Seventeenth-century English Almanacs: Transmitters of Advice for Sick Animals	56
5	Consulting by Letter in the Eighteenth Century: Mediating the Patient's View?	71
6	Medical Popularization and the Patient in the Eighteenth Century	89
7	Mediating Medicine through Private Letters: the Eighteenth-century Catalan Medical World	108
8	'Mediating Sexual Difference': the Medical Understanding of Human Hermaphrodites in Eighteenth-century England	127
9	Jules Guerin Makes his Market: the Social Economy of Orthopaedic Medicine in Paris, 1825-1845	148
10	Clashing Knowledge-claims in Nineteenth-century English Vaccination	171
11	Sex and the Doctors: the Medicalization of Sexuality as a Two-way Process in Early to Mid-Twentieth-century Britain	192
12	Hailing a Miracle Drug: the Interferon	212
13	Afterword: Cultural Differences in Medicine	233
	Index	238