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This book tells the story of two generations of Pietist ministers sent from Halle, in Brandenburg Prussia during the eighteenth century, to the German communiti

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

The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Medicine and Empire provides an introduction to this shared history – spanning

A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.

Drawing upon a rich array of sources from archives in Leipzig, Dresden and Halle, Tanya Kevorkian illuminates culture in Leipzig before and during J.S. Bach's t