Civic Medicine

Communities across Europe for eight centuries contracted with doctors, who provided citizen care, helped govern, and led in public life. Civic Medicine defines this timely subject by focusing on its golden age, opening a history of knowledge and action shaped more by community than market or state.

J. Andrew Mendelsohn is Reader in History of Science and Medicine in the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London, having previously taught at Imperial College London.
Annemarie Kinzelbach has published extensively on medicine, health, and society in early modern Germany.
Ruth Schilling trained in early modern urban history and is Junior Professor for the History of Science at the University of Bremen and scientific coordinator of exhibitions and research at the German Maritime Museum.