Illness and healing alternatives in Western Europe / / edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Hilary Marland and Hans de Waardt
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| Titolo: |
Illness and healing alternatives in Western Europe / / edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Hilary Marland and Hans de Waardt
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 610 |
| Soggetto topico: | Alternative medicine - Europe, Western - History |
| Medicine - Europe, Western - History | |
| Social medicine - Europe, Western - History | |
| Altri autori: |
Gijswijt-HofstraMarijke
MarlandHilary
WaardtHans de
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: demons, diagnosis and disenchantment; Magical healing, witchcraft and elite discourse in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France; Demons and disease: the disenchantment of the sick (1500 1700); Demonic affliction or divine chastisement? Conceptions of illness and healing among spiritualists and Mennonites in Holland, C.1530 C.1630; A false living saint in Cologne in the 1620's: the case of Sophia Agnes von Langenberg; Popular Pietism and the language of sickness: Evert Willemsz's conversion, 1622 23 |
| Charcot's demons: retrospective medicine and historical diagnosis in the writings of the Salptrire school Breaking the boundaries: irregular healers in eighteenth-century Holland; Conversions to homoeopathy in the nineteenth century: the rationality of medical deviance; Abortion for sale! The competition between quacks and doctors in Weimar Germany; Healing alternatives in Alicante, Spain, in the late nineteenth and | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Illness and healing alternatives in Western Europe |
| ISBN: | 1-134-77899-6 |
| 1-134-77900-3 | |
| 1-280-15750-X | |
| 9786610157501 | |
| 0-203-43666-0 | |
| 0-203-28560-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779945503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in the social history of medicine.