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Illness and healing alternatives in Western Europe /
The first book to focus on belief, culture and healing in the past; the authors draw on a broad range of material, from studies of demonologists and reports of asylum doctors, to church archives and oral evidence.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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| Colección: | Studies in the social history of medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Magical healing, witchcraft and elite discourse in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France / Matthew Ramsey
- 2. Demons and disease : the disenchantment of the sick (1500-1700) / Stuart Clark
- 3. Demonic affliction or divine chastisement? : conceptions of illness and healing among spiritualists and Mennonites in Holland, c. 1530-c. 1630 / Gary K. Waite
- 4. A false living saint in Cologne in the 1620s : the case of Sophia Agnes von Langenberg / Albrecht Burkardt
- 5. Popular pietism and the language of sickness : Evert Willemsz's conversion, 1622-23 / Willem Frijhoff
- 6. Charcot's demons : retrospective medicine and historical diagnosis in the writings of the Salpetriere school / Sarah Ferber
- 7. Breaking the boundaries : irregular healers in eighteenth-century Holland / Hans de Waardt
- 8. Conversions to homeopathy in the nineteenth century : the rationality of medical deviance / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
- 9. Abortion for sale! : the competition between quacks and doctors in Weimar Germany / Cornelie Usborne
- 10. Healing alternatives in Alicante, Spain, in the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries / Enrique Perdiguero
- 11. Bosom serpents and alimentary amphibians : a language for sickness / Gillian Bennett
- 12. Women as Winti healers : rationality and contradiction in the preservation of a Suriname healing tradition / Ineke van Wetering.