{"product_id":"2026200013679-secondhand-the-herbalist-nicholas-culpeper-and-the-fight-for-medical-freedom","title":"The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper And The Fight For Medical Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn seventeenth-century London, a city riven by civil war and rank with disease, one man dared to challenge the most powerful medical institution in England — The Herbalist chronicles the remarkable life of Nicholas Culpeper, the radical astrologer-physician who defied the Royal College of Physicians by translating their jealously guarded Latin pharmacopoeia into English, placing the secrets of medicine directly into the hands of ordinary people. Benjamin Woolley reconstructs Culpeper's world with vivid precision, painting a portrait of a society in upheaval, where Puritan ideology, scientific revolution, and class warfare collided in the apothecary's mortar.\n\nWoolley writes with the authority of a seasoned historian and the pace of a novelist, weaving together biography, social history, and the history of medicine into a seamless and gripping narrative. The Herbalist illuminates the enduring tension between institutional power and the public's right to knowledge, asking questions that remain urgently relevant today — who controls medicine, and who bears the cost when they do? A deeply researched and compulsively readable account, it leaves the reader wondering how little, in four centuries, has truly changed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160925053147,"sku":"2026200013679-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d7a1c4b9-4b9a-494f-8dcd-fdad28372f72.png?v=1787188426","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013679-secondhand-the-herbalist-nicholas-culpeper-and-the-fight-for-medical-freedom","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}