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The apothecary's chest : magic, art and medication /
ÂThe Apothecaryâs Chest: Magic, Art and Medicationâ was a one-day symposium held at the University of Glasgow on November 24, 2007. The symposium called for a discussion on the evolution of the notions of mysticism, knowledge and superstition in the.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The phrenological dreamer : the popular medical and fictional writing of Robert Macnish (1802-1837) / Megan Coyer
- Animal magic : conjury and power in colonial taxidermy / John Miller
- A wizard/witch's duel : gender power struggles and the occult in surrealism / Rachel Grew
- Old spells, magic herbs and frightening creatures : the curandera in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless me, Ultima / João de Mancelos
- The rising gorge : poison, Hamlet and sin / Christa Mahalik
- Prescription narratives : rereading Joseph Cornell's Pharmacy series as a "modernist antidote" / Catriona McAra
- Theatres of memory and restraint : Matthew Barney among the Neo-Platonists / Corin Depper
- The popular use of "precious" stones medicinally in early modern Scotland / Tom Blaen
- Theodora, "the pills" and the saints : female practices toward drug prescrtiption, rearrangements of male therapeutic power / Athena Peglidou
- "I will put none of these diseases upon thee (
- ) for I am the Lord that healeth thee" : Christ as pharmacist and healer in iconography and literature of late medieval and early modern times / Jacek Kowzan
- Magic, mysticism and medicine : the medical career of John Webster (1611-1682) / Lindsey Fitzharris
- "They go by their dreams" : myth-making and rationality in the initiation of the shaman Quesalid / Harry Whitehead
- From mere bellies to the bad shaman : roles of the contemporary poet / Bill Herbert.