Baudry, Hervé2019-01-162019-01-16201797890043403741874-4834PURE: 3943373PURE UUID: 76b729e0-9eb9-4d24-b642-e12fe28aa3bdORCID: /0000-0001-9102-913X/work/122326242http://hdl.handle.net/10362/57644UID/HIS/04666/2013 SFRH/BPD/62410/2009The title of this chapter prompts a series of questions. Was there a distinctive medical book market, and if so what did it look like within the broader world of the book? Was it Portuguese, or might we better think in Iberian or even European terms? Was medical publishing a profitable activity? Let us attempt to address these issues, and explore the connections between producers and consumers (buyers, readers, censors) and how these relationships evolved over the course of the first half of the seventeenth century162873150engBibliographySpainhistoryMexicoprintingreception studiesPortugalliteratureHistorybook part10.1163/9789004340381_014