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Sign or symptom? : exceptional corporeal phenomena in religion and medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /
Described as 'the hand of God', as 'pathological' or even as 'a clever trick', exceptional corporeal phenomena such as miraculous cures, stigmata, and incorrupt corpses have triggered heated debates in the past. Depending on their definition as either 'supernatural...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leuven, Belgium :
Leuven University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ;
19. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Tine van Osselaer
- The devil in the madhouse : on the treatment of religious pathologies in early psychiatry, Tyrol, 1830-1850 / Maria Heidegger
- Gustave Boissarie, Jean-Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud : three doctors' responses to some unusual bodily phenomena : convergences and divergences (in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) / Nicole Edelman
- Prophecies of pilgrimage : the rise and fall of Marie Bergadieu, the ecstatic of Fontet / Sofie Lachapelle
- Medical and mystical opinion in British catholicism : the contentious case of Teresa Higginson / Mary Heimann
- Disenchanted America : accounting for the lack of extraordinary mystical phenomena in catholic America / Paula Kane
- The mad saint as healer:"the Islamic majnun in al-Kattani's Salwat al-anfas and in French colonial medicine and sociology / Ellen J. Amster
- Experiencing religion and medicine : Marian apparition and victim souls in Portugal, 1910-1950 / Tiago Pires Marques
- A question of competence and authority : lay views on the medical examinations of the Marian apparition series in 1930s Belgium / Tine van Osselaer.