{"product_id":"medical-misinformation-in-early-modern-christopher-hutchinson-9781644534281","title":"Medical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMedical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany\u003c\/i\u003e examines how doctors, writers, and printers in sixteenth-century Germany responded to the rapid expansion of print and its implications for medical knowledge. The spread of printed texts generated widespread suspicion about print's reliability as a conduit of information and led writers to reflect on questions of audience, vernacularity, and medical authority in their responses to disease. The book investigates literary texts alongside popular vernacular medical pamphlets on the major epidemic diseases of the period--plague, syphilis, and the English sweating sickness--to reveal a widespread concern with the impact of printed texts on public health. During the 1529 outbreak of the English sweating sickness, this concern culminated in writers' use of a \"rhetoric of virality,\" explicitly comparing the circulation of texts to the spread of disease, as they confronted the parallel contagions of disease and information.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Hutchinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644534282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644534281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Delaware Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Christopher Hutchinson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48588362645759,"sku":"9781644534281","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b3d1fcf-efb9-4d4c-adcf-a9e4ad3ef6e7.jpg?v=1780174294","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/medical-misinformation-in-early-modern-christopher-hutchinson-9781644534281","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}