Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis - Paperback

by Olivia Weisser (Editor)

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine.

Author Biography

Olivia Weisser is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she teaches and writes about the history of health and healing in the 1500s-1700s. Her first book, Ill Composed (2015), examined how gender shaped patients' perceptions of sickness. She is finishing a new book on the history of venereal disease.