Book Review: Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England

Recent years have seen an increase in studies of the lived experience of early modern health care, and of the strategies of women who navigated the ostensibly male domain of therapeutics. It has become clear that, despite their formal exclusion from the practice of professional medicine, seventeenth...

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Published inMedical History Vol. 62; no. 2; p. 262
Main Author Walkden, Michael
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published London Cambridge University Press 01.04.2018
Subjects
17th century
History of medicine
Home health care
Households
Nonfiction
Quantitative analysis
Women
England
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Summary:Recent years have seen an increase in studies of the lived experience of early modern health care, and of the strategies of women who navigated the ostensibly male domain of therapeutics. It has become clear that, despite their formal exclusion from the practice of professional medicine, seventeenth-century women played a crucial role in managing health and administering therapeutics at the household level. Anne Stobart's illuminating new study provides a window onto a world of domestic health care which has until recently been obscured from view.
ISSN:0025-7273
2048-8343
DOI:10.1017/mdh.2018.17