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Children and childhood in western society since 1500

By Hugh Cunningham

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

By Paul M. Kennedy

The life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim

By Franz Hartmann

Mummies, cannibals, and vampires

By Richard Sugg

Revolutionizing the sciences

By Peter Dear

Monstrous births and visual culture in sixteenth-century Germany

By Jennifer Spinks

Obstetrics and gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England

By Audrey Eccles

Disease, diagnosis, and cure on the early modern stage

By Kaara L. Peterson

The Body Emblazoned

By Jonathan Sawday

The history of medicine in the United States

By Francis R. Packard

Women, Medicine and Theatre, 1500-1750

By M. A. Katritzky

Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery

By Paolo Savoia

The method of physick

By Philip Barrough

Negotiating the French pox in early modern Germany

By Claudia Stein

The Book Nobody Read

By Owen Gingerich

Female Patients in Early Modern Britain

By Wendy D. Churchill

Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal

By Laurinda Abreu,Andrew Cunningham,Ole Peter Grell,Christopher J. Tribe

Urban History of the Plague

By Karen Jillings

Renaissance food from Rabelais to Shakespeare

By Joan Fitzpatrick

Pastoral drama and healing in early modern Italy

By Federico Schneider

Medical authority and Englishwomen's herbal texts, 1550-1650

By Rebecca Laroche

Birthing bodies in early modern France

By Kirk D. Read

Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England

By Kaara L. Peterson

Healing, performance, and ceremony in the writings of three early modern physicians

By M. A. Katritzky