by Olivia Weisser (Author)

In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range o

Author Biography

Olivia Weisser is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She lives in Cambridge, MA.