Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe

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Ole Peter Grell, Dr. Andrew Cunningham
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 267 pagina's
During the Enlightenment, the religious elements in the treatment and interpretation of diseases to all intents and purposes disappeared. However, recent scholarship suggests that this may well be an overstatement and that religion retained many of its customary relations with medicine. This text explores how far this was true.
 

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The Nexus
29
The Role of Clergymen in Spanish
49
Medicine History and Religion in Naples in the Seventeenth
63
Pope Benedict XIV and the Beatification of the Flying Saint
79
A Comparison of Mennonite
121
Tropical Medicine and Exotic Natural History
145
A Bavarian Court Physician
173
The Enlightenment Debate on
195
The Conversions to Catholicism of
205
Medicine Witchcraft and the Politics of Healing in Late
223
From Souls to the Powers of
243
Index
259
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