Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England
Details:
- Author(s) Furdell, Elizabeth L
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2002
- Pages 282pp; illus
- Publisher University of Rochester Press
- Place Published Rochester NY
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Explores the book trade, the role it played in medicine, and the impact it had at a time of 'momentous theoretical and jurisdictional controversies' in healthcare in England. Chapters include: 'London publishers and booksellers in the seventeenth century medical marketplace'; 'Every man his own doctor' - medical publishers and booksellers in early modern England'; 'Medical advertising - publishing the proprietary'; 'Epilogue - after the Rose Case, assessing the impact of print on medicine in early modern England'; etc