Introduction: Art and Religious Reform in Early Modern Europe

The art of midwifery: early modern midwives in Europe

guarantee (pp. 2-3). Here McVaugh is surely right to point out that this process cannot be explained by assuming unquestioningly that physicians aimed instinctively at professional status and the exclusion of others from practice, and that the spontaneous coming together of practitioners in associations needs no further explanation other than a common perception of self-interest (p. 242). McVau...

Suicide in Early Modern and Modern Europe

Suicide in Early Modern and Modern Europe

an act and a subject of discourse, in the early and late modern periods. It argues that, while publications on the theme have increased considerably in the past two decades, the problematic character of the evidence for suicide has led to afocus on attitudes to suicide at the expense of empirical investigations. The latter have largely confirmed the link between social isolation and suicide, po...

Progress and Poverty in Early Modern Europe

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe