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...

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...

This innovative book explores the role of cast steel in instruments for refining the body in the eighteenth century, amidst the changing climate of ideas surrounding 'polite' bodily form and appearance.

This volume brings together a range of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to re-examine the histories of facial hair and its place in discussions of gender, the military, travel and art, amongst others.