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