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Medical miracles : doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duffin, Jacalyn, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spiritual healing--Christianity--History.
- Spiritual healing.
- Christian saints--History.
- Christian saints.
- Miracles--History.
- Miracles.
- Canonization--History--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Canonization.
- Medicine.
- Spiritual Therapies.
- Christianity.
- Religion.
- Humanities.
- Complementary Therapies.
- Therapeutics.
- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures.
- Religion and Medicine.
- Faith Healing.
- Saints.
- Catholic Church--Doctrines--History.
- Catholic Church.
- Medical Subjects:
- Spiritual Therapies.
- Christianity.
- Religion.
- Humanities.
- Complementary Therapies.
- Therapeutics.
- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures.
- Religion and Medicine.
- Faith Healing.
- Saints.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 285 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- Medical miracles
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jacalyn Duffin has examined either the full testimony or the Vatican summaries of more than 670 miracles reported in 35 countries on six continents from the late 17th century to the 21st. She situates the postmodern debate about the mind/body relationship within the timeless tradition of saintly healing.
- Contents:
- Making saints : miracles, medicine, and evidence since 1588
- The supplicants and their saints
- The miracles : diseases, corpses, and other wonders
- The doctors : medical knowledge in the canonization process
- The cure as drama : gestures of invocation and the context of cure
- Conclusion : religion, medicine, and miracles.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199868612 (ebook) :
- 0199868611 (ebook) :
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