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SSM 8: The Medical Marketplace in England, 1500-1700

In an era before state medicine, people selected from a variety of forms of healing. These formed a loose hierarchy in terms of prestige, training, and expense. At the top, and only for the elite, were university-educated physicians. Mass medicine arguably evolved out of popular magic. Apothecaries, surgeons, priests, cunning-men and women and outright charlatans also jostled for work in what was a poorly regulated market. This module provides an introduction to the groups of practitioners, their forms of treatment, the experience of sufferers and their social and cultural relations. It offers the chance to study by dissertation one aspect in detail. A wide range of primary and secondary sources is available.

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