Medicine, Government and Public Health in Philip II's Spain

Clouse (history, Ohio U.) combines her interest in the history of medicine and in early modern Europe by looking at matters of health and medicine in 16th-century Spain. She discusses protecting the public health with the Tribunal del Protomedicato; medical education at the university; patronage and legitimation of empiric, surgeons, and experiential medicine; cooperation and professionalization in the apothecary's profession; and cooperation and resistance regarding poor relief. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Michele L. Clouse is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Ohio University and specializes in the history of medicine, with a particular interest in the intersection between the political, legal, and social history of early modern Europe, 1400-1750.