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1 online resource (xv, 165 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
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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 |
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Apothecary's chest |
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Medication |
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Magic |
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Art |
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Proceedings of a symposium of the same name held at the University of Glasgow on Nov. 24, 2007. Cf. acknowledgments |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Pharmacology -- History -- Congresses
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Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Congresses
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Medicine and art -- Congresses
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Literature and medicine -- Congresses
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Healing -- Congresses
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Medicine in literature.
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Pharmacology -- history
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Magic -- history
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Medicine in Literature
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Human figures depicted in art.
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Religious subjects depicted in art.
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Literature & literary studies.
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MEDICAL -- Drug Guides.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Pharmacology.
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacy.
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Medicine in literature
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Healing
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Literature and medicine
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Medicine and art
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Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
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Pharmacology
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Georganta, Konstantina
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Collignon, Fabienne
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Millim, Anne-Marie
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| ISBN |
9781443807333 |
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1443807338 |
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1282191098 |
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9781282191099 |
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