Contents: Introduction; Giulia Calvi, Disease culture and society: plague in the seventeenth century; Leo Noordegraaf, Calvinism and the plague in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic; Hans de Waardt, From cunning man to natural healer; Willem de Blécourt, Cunning women, from healers to fortune tellers; Marc Wingens, Miraculous cures in promoting salvation and interest for catholics in the Dutch republic (1640-1740); Rudolf Dekker, Herman Roodenburg, Sickness, healing and death in the jokes of Aernout van Overbeke (1632-1674); W.P.R.A. Cappers, Money and medals for saving the drowned. The financial factor in Dutch discours on apparent death during the second half of the eighteenth century; Roy Porter, Health care in enlightenment England: knowledge, power, and the market; Hilary Marland, 'A woman's touch'. Women doctors and the development of health services for women and childeren in the Netherlands 1879-c.1925; Leo van Bergen, For our honour and our rights. The Dutch East Indies Red Cross and the first Atjeh expeditions; Rita Schepers, The Belgian medical profession and the sickness funds: the collectivization of health care (1900-1945); Caren Japenga, Henk van der Velden, Access to curative health care: sickness funds versus medical relief in the Netherlands (1850-1941); Hans Binneveld, For the mind of Tommy Atkins; Marcel de Kort, Drug policy: Medical or crime control? Medicalization and criminalization of drug use, and shifting drug policies