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Now available in paperback, this volume introduces a wide range of largely unexplored sources to the history of medicine Addresses a number of current key themes in medical history, including patient narratives, domestic medicine and the medical marketplace Employs innovative methodologies and source materials to address hitherto overlooked topics, including care of the sick, medical material culture and poor relief for the sick Adds a new and alternative rural dimension to existing medical studies of Britain and Europe. Its multi-disciplinary methodology, broad scope and range of exciting...

Physick and the family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales.
This first ever monograph of early modern Welsh medicine utilises a large body of newly discovered source material, numerous approaches and methodologies and makes a significant contribution to debates in medical history; including economies of knowledge, domestic medicine and care, material culture and the rural medical marketplace. Drawing on sources from probates to parish records, diaries to domestic remedy collections, Withey offers new directions for...

This Open Access book provides a new understanding of the meanings and motivations behind the wearing of beards, moustaches and whiskers, and their associated practices and practitioners. Concerning Beards offers an important new long-term perspective on health and the male body in British society. It argues that the male face has long been an important site for the articulation of bodily health and vigour, as well as masculinity. Through an exploration of the history of male facial hair in England, Alun Withey underscores its complex meanings, medical implications and socio-cultural...