| Description |
1 online resource (x, 272 pages) |
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Studies in the social history of medicine |
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Studies in the social history of medicine.
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| Contents |
1. Magical healing, witchcraft and elite discourse in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France / Matthew Ramsey -- 2. Demons and disease : the disenchantment of the sick (1500-1700) / Stuart Clark -- 3. Demonic affliction or divine chastisement? : conceptions of illness and healing among spiritualists and Mennonites in Holland, c. 1530-c. 1630 / Gary K. Waite -- 4. A false living saint in Cologne in the 1620s : the case of Sophia Agnes von Langenberg / Albrecht Burkardt -- 5. Popular pietism and the language of sickness : Evert Willemsz's conversion, 1622-23 / Willem Frijhoff -- 6. Charcot's demons : retrospective medicine and historical diagnosis in the writings of the Salpetriere school / Sarah Ferber -- 7. Breaking the boundaries : irregular healers in eighteenth-century Holland / Hans de Waardt -- 8. Conversions to homeopathy in the nineteenth century : the rationality of medical deviance / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- 9. Abortion for sale! : the competition between quacks and doctors in Weimar Germany / Cornelie Usborne -- 10. Healing alternatives in Alicante, Spain, in the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries / Enrique Perdiguero -- 11. Bosom serpents and alimentary amphibians : a language for sickness / Gillian Bennett -- 12. Women as Winti healers : rationality and contradiction in the preservation of a Suriname healing tradition / Ineke van Wetering |
| Summary |
The first book to focus on belief, culture and healing in the past; the authors draw on a broad range of material, from studies of demonologists and reports of asylum doctors, to church archives and oral evidence |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Alternative medicine -- Europe -- History
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Medicine -- Europe -- History
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Social medicine -- Europe -- History
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Medicine -- History.
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Complementary Therapies -- history
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History of Medicine
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history of medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
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MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
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MEDICAL.
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MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
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MEDICAL -- Essays.
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MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
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Alternative medicine
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Medicine
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Social medicine
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Alternatieve geneeskunde.
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Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
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Europe |
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Europe
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke
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Marland, Hilary
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Waardt, Hans de
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| ISBN |
0203285603 |
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9780203285602 |
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9780203436660 |
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0203436660 |
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9781134779000 |
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1134779003 |
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