Review of The Miraculous Conformist: Valentine Greatrakes, the Body Politic, and the Politics of Healing in Restoration Britain, by Peter Elmer

A peer-reviewed book review of Peter Elmer's modern monograph on Greatrakes. Identifier (DOI 10.1093/shm/hkt096) confirmed directly against the Crossref record: Ridge, Social History of Medicine, vol. 27, issue 1, pp. 169-171, published February 2014. The review is described (via secondary discovery summary, not a direct fetch of the paywalled review text) as characterizing Elmer's monograph as reading Greatrakes's conduct partly through his need to secure patronage and protect his economic position after the Restoration. This case does not quote the review verbatim and does not treat this characterization as load-bearing; the financial-conflict stage rests on the independently, directly verified Lady Conway fee recorded in the DNB 1890 entry.