The Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776

The Rise of Scientific Activity in Colonial New England *

Scientific tradition in New England had its beginnings in and around Boston shortly after the year 1712. The main purpose of the present paper is to describe this early stirring of scientific activity, and to present some of the factors that may have influenced it. It is true that this scientific activity was elementary compared with the contemporaneous European science. Nevertheless, early eig...

Pain and Surgery in England, circa 1620–circa 1740

The scholarship on the discussion and role of pain in early modern English surgery is limited. Scholars have given little consideration to how surgeons described and comprehended pain in their patients' bodies in early modern England, including how these understandings connected to notions of the humours, nerves and sex difference. This article focuses on the attention that surgeons paid to pai...

Medicine in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620–1820. A Conference Held 25–26 May 1978 by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Medical historians will find the chapter on plague epidemics of particular interest. Dr. Finlay shows how epidemic death rates varied with location, social status, age, and (least easily explained) sex; and he stresses in a telling conclusion that London's demography depended more on the "background" level of mortality than on these occasional critical years, despite their dramatic effects. Her...

Currency Policies and the Nature of Litigation in Colonial New England

Challenges Facing Healthwatch, a New Consumer Champion in England

This article engages with debates about the conceptualisation and practical challenges of patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care services. Policy in this area in England has shifted numerous times but increasingly a consumerist discourse seems to override more democratic ideas concerning the relationship between citizens and public services. Recent policy change in Engla...