Mary E. Fissell

Mary E. Fissell is professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, with appointments in the history of science and the history departments. Her most recent book, Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England, is available from Oxford University Press.

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Posted on Nov. 7, 2018
An 18th-century reader inscribed her name in a copy of a small manual about domestic medicine titled Family Physitian: or every man or woman their own doctor, by D.E. Doctor of physic . . . [London…