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

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"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.
Temas:
Medicine > Religious aspects > Christianity
Medicine
Health > Religious aspects > Christianity
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Health > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 18th century.
Medicine > United States > History > 18th century.
Medicine > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 18th century.
United States
United States > Church history > 18th century.
History
Church history
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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