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The Course of God's Providence : Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America /

"This book tells the story of religion and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. It rejects simplistic frameworks of secularization and enlightenment and emphasizes, instead, continuing and powerful Protestant ideas of God's oversight in shaping and motivating human activity i...

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Autor principal: Koch, Philippa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- THE COURSE OF GOD'S PROVIDENCE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Wholesome Words: Sickness and Narrative in Protestant Pastoral Manuals -- 2. Writing Sickness, Witnessing Providence: Letters, Journals, and Memoirs of the Atlantic World -- 3. Experience and the Soul in Eighteenth-Century Medicine -- 4. Providence and Benevolence in Philadelphia's Yellow Fever Epidemic -- 5. Medicine, Providence, and Nature in Eighteenth-Century Maternity -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author 
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