Critical approaches to the history of western herbal medicine: from classical antiquity to the early modern period

1. The fragmentation of herbal history: the way forward / Anne Stobart and Susan Francia

2. Early Greek medicine: evidence of models, methods and materia medica / Vicki Pitman

3. Evaluating the content of medieval herbals / Anne Van Arsdall

4. Early-modern midwifery manuals and herbal practice / Elaine Hobby

5. An anatomy of the English Physitian / Graeme Tobyn

6. The use of trade accounts to uncover the importance of cumin as a medicinal plant in medieval England / Susan Francia

7. Early modern childbirth and herbs - the challenge of finding the sources - Nicky Wesson

8. Testamentary records of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries as a source for the history of herbal medicine in England / Richard Aspin

9. Galen's simple medicines: problems in ancient herbal medicine / John Wilkins

10. Deciphering Dioscorides: mountains and molehills? / Alison Denham and Midge Whitelegg

11. William Turner : a milestone in botanical medicine / Marie Addyman

12. John Parkinson: gardener and apothecary of London / Jill Francis

13. Archaeological sources for the history of herbal medicine practice : the case study of St John's wort with valerian at Soutra medieval hospital / Brian Moffat

14. How can ethnobotany contribute to the history of western herbal medicine? a Mesoamerican answer / Anna Waldstein

15. The history of herbal medicine as a developing field / Anne Stobart and Susan Francia.