1. For a good general overview see A. Irwin and B. Wynne (eds), Misunderstanding Science? The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); the best introduction to
2. the history of medical popularisation is still R. Porter (ed.), The Popularization of Medicine 1650–1850 (London and New York: Routledge, 1992).
3. In addition to the contributions to Porter, Popularization see e.g., W. Coleman, ‘The People’s Health. Medical Themes in Eighteenth-century French Popular Literature’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 51 (1977), 55–74;
4. V. S. Smith, ‘Cleanliness: Idea and Practice in Britain, 1770–1850’, PhD thesis, University of London (London, 1985);
5. L. Jordanova, ‘The Popularization of Medicine: Tissot on Onanism’, Textual Practice, 1 (1987), 68–79;