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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koch, Philippa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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