Recent decades have witnessed profound shifts in the politics of medicine and the biological
sciences. Members of several professions, including philosophers, lawyers and social …

Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students a solid
grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse …

Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings
about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation …

This book examines the consequences of commercial and imperial expansion for British
medicine between roughly 1660 and 1830. It pays particular attention to the development of …

This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It
assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different …

Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new interpretation of
the development of the English East India Company between 1660 and 1720. The book …

This article is a study of household medicine production and consumption through an
examination of the papers of Elizabeth Freke (1641-1714) and a wider survey of around …

When M ary C holmeley married H enry F airfax in 1627, she carried to her new home in Y
orkshire a leather‐bound notebook filled with medical recipes. Over the next few decades, M …

Developed throughout early modern Europe, lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central
role in early modern responses to epidemic disease, in particular the prevention and …

This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state
and the market–and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so …