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David Wootton

David Wootton’s Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates will be published by Oxford in June. He teaches early modern history at the University of York, where he is an Anniversary Professor.

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Separating Gracie and Rosie · 22 July 2004

  • One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal by Alice Domurat Dreger

Never Knowingly Naked · 15 April 2004

  • Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in 17th-Century England by Laura Gowing

subscriber-only content Lacanian Jesuit · 4 October 2001

  • The Possession at Loudun by Michel de Certeau, translated by Michael Smith
  • The Certeau Reader edited by Graham Ward
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Skipwith and Anktill · 10 August 2000

  • Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy
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 not available in archive Brutish Babies · 11 November 1999

  • Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night by Wolfgang Behringer, translated by H.C.Erik Midelfort
  • Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Stuart Clark
  • Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England by Alan Macfarlane
  • The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Football, Witchcraft, Murder and the King of England by James Sharpe

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