The medical marketplace / Mark S. R. Jenner & Patrick Wallis -- Medical economies in fifteenth-century England / Robert Ralley -- Competition and cooperation in the early modern medical economy / Patrick Wallis -- The rural medical marketplace in southern England c.1570-1720 / Ian Mortimer --...

Main description: Ultimately, the bank metaphor straitjacketed legal codes and reinforced inequalities in medical care. By exploring its past, Banking on the Body charts the path to a more efficient and less exploitative distribution of the human body’s life-giving potential.