Developments in medicine that took place in the 1600s were heavily influenced by the religious and politico-religious upheavals in English society. This work addresses the contending approaches to medicine at a time of dynastic flux, civil war and plague.
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Medicine and religion in 17th-century England, Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham
Sir Thomas Browne and his "Religio Medici" - reason, nature and religion, Andrew Cunningham
the career of astrological medicine in England, Michael MacDonald
institutional structures and personal belief in the London College of Physicians, Harold J. Cook
anatomist atheist? the "hylozoistic" foundations of Francis Glisson's anatomical research, Guido Giglioni
the physiology of reading and the anatomy of enthusiasm, Adrian Johns
piety, physic and prodigious abstinence, Simon Schaffer
plague, prayer and physic - Helmontian medicine in Restoration England, Ole Peter Grell
of physic and philosophy - Anne Conway, F.M. van Helmont and 17th-century medicine, Sarah Hutton
the reluctant philanthropist - Robert Boyle and the "Communication of Secrets and Receits in Physick", Michael Hunter
the theology of affiliation and the experience of sickness in the godly family, David Harley
Newtonianism, medicine and religion, Anita Guerrini
quackery and enthusiasm, or why drinking water cured the plague, Mark Jenner.