Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe.
Title:
Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe.
Author:
Gijswit-Hofstra, Marijke.
ISBN:
9780203436660
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Series:
Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Contents:
Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: demons, diagnosis and disenchantment -- Chapter 1 Magical healing, witchcraft and elite discourse in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France -- Chapter 2 Demons and disease: the disenchantment of the sick (1500-1700) -- Chapter 3 Demonic affliction or divine chastisement? Conceptions of illness and healing among spiritualists and Mennonites in Holland, c. 1530-c. 1630 -- Chapter 4 A false living saint in Cologne in the 1620s: the case of Sophia Agnes von Langenberg -- Chapter 5 Popular Pietism and the language of sickness: Evert Willemsz's conversion, 1622-23 -- Chapter 6 Charcot's demons: retrospective medicine and historical diagnosis in the writings of the Salpêtrière school -- Chapter 7 Breaking the boundaries: irregular healers in eighteenth-century Holland -- Chapter 8 Conversions to homoeopathy in the nineteenth century: the rationality of medical deviance -- Chapter 9 Abortion for sale! The competition between quacks and doctors in Weimar Germany -- Chapter 10 Healing alternatives in Alicante, Spain, in the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries -- Chapter 11 Bosom serpents and alimentary amphibians: a language for sickness -- Chapter 12 Women as Winti healers: rationality and contradiction in the preservation of a Suriname healing tradition -- Index.
Abstract:
Despite the recent upsurge in interest in alternative medicine and unorthodox healers, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe is the first book to focus closely on the relationship between belief, culture, and healing in the past. In essays on France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and England, from the sixteenth century to the present day, the authors draw on a broad range of material, from studies of demonologists and reports of asylum doctors, to church archives and oral evidence.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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