Where paralytics walk and the blind see : stories of sickness and disability at the juncture of worlds / Mary Dunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunn, Mary, 1976- author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sick--Québec (Province)--History--17th century.

Sick.

Sick--Québec (Province)--History--18th century.

Care of the sick--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Care of the sick.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Summary:

In our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of embodied difference, however, have not always been seen in terms of lack and loss. 'Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See' explores the case of early modern Catholic Canada under French rule and shows it to be a period rich with alternative understandings of infirmity, disease, and death. Counternarratives to our contemporary assumptions, these early modern stories invite us to creatively imagine ways of living meaningfully with embodied difference today.

Contents:

Introduction

Bedside Manners: Illness Narratives in the Jesuit Relations

Recovery and Redemption in the Histoire de l'Hôtel Dieu de Quebec

Hagiographic Prosthetics in the Vie de la Mere Catherine de Saint-Augustin

Divine Presence in the Actes du tres devot Frere Didace Pelletier

Conclusion.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 8, 2023).

ISBN:

9780691233239

0691233233

OCLC:

1313880920