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For the history of medicine, you can't beat the Clio Medica series. They're focused primarily on the period 1600-1900, though, which is probably not what you're looking for. Each volume contains a series of essays which take on a theme from multiple angles (I'm particularly fond of "British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830"). The wide variety of niche topics addressed, the depth to which the topics are analyzed (a 50ish page treatise on the historical development of the truss comes to mind), and the fact that the essays are largely written by authors in the Humanities rather than doctors make this series my go-to source for medical history. Furthermore, the extensive bibliographic information accompanying each essay makes further research pretty easy.

Moving backwards towards Classical medical sources, I'd say an interesting bridge source for you might be the writings of Paracelsus, alchemist and surgeon (really a good place to get a feel for the transition from occult/magical ritual medical practice to the science of medicine that began in the Renaissance). Keep in mind that Paracelsus is an alchemist and writes about his experiments in a very abstract philosophical manner- you'll have to do a lot of work to interpret what he's saying in order to see the themes of medical/chemical/scientific inquiry develop. I think of him more as a philosopher of science/medicine than an actual scientific/medical authority.

The medical historian John Scarborough has written pretty extensively on the subject of the history of medicine in the Classical Mediterranean. If you have access to JSTOR, there are several articles written by him available which you might look into ("Roman Pharmacy and the Eastern Drug Trade" treats with the interplay of Far/Near/Middle-Eastern medicine with Roman medicine, could be a good jumping-off point for further study). I've also heard good things about his Roman Medicine.

For Middle-Eastern and Near-Eastern medicine, if you don't want to flounder around the ritual medicine contained in the mystical texts such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, you're probably going to want to look into the medical documents found in the Cairo Genizah, a collection of fragmentary Jewish texts concerning a vast variety of subjects. If you don't know ancient Hebrew/Arabic/Aramaic and aren't studying at Cambridge (where the collection is stored) see if your librarian can get ahold of Medical and Para-medical Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections or Medical Prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical Medicine and Pharmacology in Medieval Egypt.

Hope this helps!

she may have some interest in health justice then, Tim Faust is my go-to for that...consider this. for disability justice I like Lateef McLeod, he has a website and blog and his book is here

The Settlement Cookbook. From an earlier era but still loaded with great recipes. 1903 replica.

https://www.amazon.com/Way-Mans-Heart-Settlement-Cook/dp/1406793949

No problem! I consider them all essential for vegans that want to learn about cutting-edge vegan cooking/baking. The Dirt Candy book isn't vegan, just vegetarian, but almost every recipe has instructions for making it vegan and it's really detailed.

You could also throw in Plum and Candle 79. Candle's soon-to-be-released holiday book looks promising too.