Margaret Pelling is Reader in Social History of Medicine, Modern History Faculty & St Cross College, the University of Oxford, UK. Scott Mandelbrote is Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK.

’The principal strength of this volume lies in the study of a huge array of subjects taken by its contributors to research the history of health, medicine and science, with a particular emphasis upon reform.’ Local Population Studies ’... Pelling and Mandelbrote should be congratulated for putting together a coherent and at times provocative volume that provides a composite picture of the interaction of religion, politics, medicine and professional concerns in western Europe. In doing so, they have provided a fitting tribute to Webster and his work.’ Medical History

• Contents: Preface: 'For the improvement of all things'; The instauration of the image of God in man: humanist anthropology, encyclopaedic pedagogy, Baconianism and universal reform, Howard Hotson; Harmony, health, and healing: music's role in early modern Paracelsian thought, Penelope Gouk; The economy of magic in early modern England, Lauren Kassell; Chemical medicine and Paracelsianism in Italy, 1550-1650, Antonio Clericuzio; Politics, medicine, and masculinity: physicians and office-bearing in early modern England, Margaret Pelling; A 'sanative contagion': Henry More on faith healing, Robert Crocker; William Petty and Anne Greene: medical and political reform in commonwealth Oxford, Scott Mandelbrote; Between anatomy and politics: John Finch and Italy, 1649-71, Stefano Villani; The origins of the Royal Society revisited, Mordechai Feingold; The 'great projector': John Cary and the legacy of Puritan reform in Bristol 1647-1720, Jonathan Barry; Medicine, race and radicalism in the later Scottish enlightenment, Colin Kidd; After the revolution: scientific language and French politics, 1795-1802, Pietro Corsi; 'Babies of the Empire': the evolution of infant welfare services in New Zealand and Britain in the first half of the 20th century, Linda Bryder; Hospitals, regions, and central authority: issues in Scottish hospital planning, 1947-74, John Stewart; Hospital provision, resource allocation, and the early National Health Service: the Sheffield regional hospital board, 1947-74, John Welshman; International recruitment of nurses to the UK: the history of the present, Anne Marie Rafferty; Professional status and professional regulation in the 1970s: the case of the Briggs committee on nursing and the Merrison committee on the regulation of the medical profession, Jane Lewis; New social movement or government-funded voluntary sector? ASH (Action on Smoking and Health), science, and anti-tobacco activism in the 1970s, Virginia Berridge; Select publications

Margaret Pelling is Reader in Social History of Medicine, Modern History Faculty & St Cross College, the University of Oxford, UK. Scott Mandelbrote is Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK.

’The principal strength of this volume lies in the study of a huge array of subjects taken by its contributors to research the history of health, medicine and science, with a particular emphasis upon reform.’ Local Population Studies ’... Pelling and Mandelbrote should be congratulated for putting together a coherent and at times provocative volume that provides a composite picture of the interaction of religion, politics, medicine and professional concerns in western Europe. In doing so, they have provided a fitting tribute to Webster and his work.’ Medical History

• Contents: Preface: 'For the improvement of all things'; The instauration of the image of God in man: humanist anthropology, encyclopaedic pedagogy, Baconianism and universal reform, Howard Hotson; Harmony, health, and healing: music's role in early modern Paracelsian thought, Penelope Gouk; The economy of magic in early modern England, Lauren Kassell; Chemical medicine and Paracelsianism in Italy, 1550-1650, Antonio Clericuzio; Politics, medicine, and masculinity: physicians and office-bearing in early modern England, Margaret Pelling; A 'sanative contagion': Henry More on faith healing, Robert Crocker; William Petty and Anne Greene: medical and political reform in commonwealth Oxford, Scott Mandelbrote; Between anatomy and politics: John Finch and Italy, 1649-71, Stefano Villani; The origins of the Royal Society revisited, Mordechai Feingold; The 'great projector': John Cary and the legacy of Puritan reform in Bristol 1647-1720, Jonathan Barry; Medicine, race and radicalism in the later Scottish enlightenment, Colin Kidd; After the revolution: scientific language and French politics, 1795-1802, Pietro Corsi; 'Babies of the Empire': the evolution of infant welfare services in New Zealand and Britain in the first half of the 20th century, Linda Bryder; Hospitals, regions, and central authority: issues in Scottish hospital planning, 1947-74, John Stewart; Hospital provision, resource allocation, and the early National Health Service: the Sheffield regional hospital board, 1947-74, John Welshman; International recruitment of nurses to the UK: the history of the present, Anne Marie Rafferty; Professional status and professional regulation in the 1970s: the case of the Briggs committee on nursing and the Merrison committee on the regulation of the medical profession, Jane Lewis; New social movement or government-funded voluntary sector? ASH (Action on Smoking and Health), science, and anti-tobacco activism in the 1970s, Virginia Berridge; Select publications

Margaret Pelling is Reader in Social History of Medicine, Modern History Faculty & St Cross College, the University of Oxford, UK. Scott Mandelbrote is Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK.

’The principal strength of this volume lies in the study of a huge array of subjects taken by its contributors to research the history of health, medicine and science, with a particular emphasis upon reform.’ Local Population Studies ’... Pelling and Mandelbrote should be congratulated for putting together a coherent and at times provocative volume that provides a composite picture of the interaction of religion, politics, medicine and professional concerns in western Europe. In doing so, they have provided a fitting tribute to Webster and his work.’ Medical History

• Contents: Preface: 'For the improvement of all things'; The instauration of the image of God in man: humanist anthropology, encyclopaedic pedagogy, Baconianism and universal reform, Howard Hotson; Harmony, health, and healing: music's role in early modern Paracelsian thought, Penelope Gouk; The economy of magic in early modern England, Lauren Kassell; Chemical medicine and Paracelsianism in Italy, 1550-1650, Antonio Clericuzio; Politics, medicine, and masculinity: physicians and office-bearing in early modern England, Margaret Pelling; A 'sanative contagion': Henry More on faith healing, Robert Crocker; William Petty and Anne Greene: medical and political reform in commonwealth Oxford, Scott Mandelbrote; Between anatomy and politics: John Finch and Italy, 1649-71, Stefano Villani; The origins of the Royal Society revisited, Mordechai Feingold; The 'great projector': John Cary and the legacy of Puritan reform in Bristol 1647-1720, Jonathan Barry; Medicine, race and radicalism in the later Scottish enlightenment, Colin Kidd; After the revolution: scientific language and French politics, 1795-1802, Pietro Corsi; 'Babies of the Empire': the evolution of infant welfare services in New Zealand and Britain in the first half of the 20th century, Linda Bryder; Hospitals, regions, and central authority: issues in Scottish hospital planning, 1947-74, John Stewart; Hospital provision, resource allocation, and the early National Health Service: the Sheffield regional hospital board, 1947-74, John Welshman; International recruitment of nurses to the UK: the history of the present, Anne Marie Rafferty; Professional status and professional regulation in the 1970s: the case of the Briggs committee on nursing and the Merrison committee on the regulation of the medical profession, Jane Lewis; New social movement or government-funded voluntary sector? ASH (Action on Smoking and Health), science, and anti-tobacco activism in the 1970s, Virginia Berridge; Select publications