The essays below offer contexts for understanding early medicine. They are authored by leading scholars and peer reviewed.
Early Modern Drugs
Benjamin Breen, University of California Santa Cruz
English Ethnicity and Health
Mary Floyd-Wilson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Disability
Emily Cock, Cardiff University
Chemical Medicine, Theory
Bruce T. Moran, University of Nevada
Chemical Medicine, Practice
Bruce T. Moran, University of Nevada
Medicine on the Early Modern Stage
Tanya Pollard, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Contagion
Kevin Siena, Trent University
The Range of Healers in Early Modern England
Mary Fissell, Johns Hopkins University
Patients
Olivia Weisser, University of Massachusetts Boston
Printing Images
Rebecca Whiteley, University of Manchester
Medical Images
Rebecca Whiteley, University of Manchester
Military Medicine
Seth LeJacq, Duke University
Apothecaries
Zachary Dorner, Johns Hopkins University
We also plan to feature essays on the following topics:
- Venereal Disease
- Race and Ethnicity
- Animals
- Plague
- Sex and Gender
- Midwifery
- Surgery
- Universities
- Apprenticeship
- Magic and Medicine
- Deformity & Monstrosity
- Food and Medicine
- Medicine and the Household
- Medical Advertisements/Proprietary Medicine
- Itinerant Practitioners
- Women and Medical Authority/Print
- Generation
- Plants and Botanical Knowledge