This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accomodating multiple perspectives on identi

In Medicine in Colonial America, Oscar Reiss recognizes the theories and practices exercised by colonial physicians, and illustrates the gradual evolution of Da

By the end of the eighteenth century, Peru had witnessed the decline of its once-thriving silver industry and had barely begun to recover from massive populatio

What was the medical marketplace? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and