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      Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

      Mary E. Fissell

      In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown…

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      Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

      Mary E. Fissell

      In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown…

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      Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

      Mary E. Fissell

      Presenting an account of ordinary people’s ideas about reproduction, this book offers a different way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women’s bodies, showing how…

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      Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

      Mary E. Fissell (Associate Professor, History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University)

      Offers a way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women’s bodies, showing how ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth were also ways of talking about…

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