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Illness and healing alternatives in Western Europe / edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Hilary Marland, and Hans de Waardt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in the social history of medicine.
- Studies in the social history of medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alternative medicine--Europe, Western--History.
- Alternative medicine.
- Medicine--Europe, Western--History.
- Medicine.
- Social medicine--Europe, Western--History.
- Social medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-77899-6
- 1-134-77900-3
- 1-280-15750-X
- 9786610157501
- 0-203-43666-0
- 0-203-28560-3
- 9780203436660
- OCLC:
- 76966226
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