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This study offers a close, interdisciplinary reading of several specific instances in which health and sickness were discussed or considered by Locke and his contemporaries. Medical historians have long known that Locke was a medical adviser and practitioner of sorts, and his me…

Thomas Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population is such a provocative and, for many, infuriating text, that since the nineteenth century it has been practically synonymous with the whole of classical political economy’s treatment of the population question. As a result, Ma…

Scholars have studied John Locke and have tried to discern whether his political teachings are derived from or at least consonant with the Bible. The divide in scholarly opinion suggests that more research is needed to determine upon what authority Locke bases his political teac…