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Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See : Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds /
"In an age of modern biomedicine and global pandemic, we are strongly inclined to consider illness and disability as problems in need of scientific solutions. History informs us, however, that bodily and mental illness and disabilities have been understood in myriad ways across time and space....
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Bedside Manners: Illness Narratives in the Jesuit Relations
- Recovery and Redemption in the Histoire de l'Hôtel Dieu de Quebec
- Hagiographic Prosthetics in the Vie de la Mere Catherine de Saint-Augustin
- Divine Presence in the Actes du tres devot Frere Didace Pelletier
- Conclusion.