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Medicine and religion in Enlightenment Europe / edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.

Other author/creatorGrell, Ole Peter.
Other author/creatorCunningham, Andrew.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Descriptionviii, 267 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Series History of medicine in context
History of medicine in context. ^A518919
Contents Enlightenment, radical enlightenment, and the 'medical revolution' of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jonathan I. Israel -- Physicians and surgeons in the service of the Inquisition : the nexus of religion and conventional medical training in Enlightenment-era Portugal / Timothy Walker -- The ignorance of midwives : the role of clergymen in Spanish Enlightenment debates on birth care / José Pardo-Tomás and Àlvar Martínez-Vidal -- Medicine, history and religion in Naples in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Maria Conforti --
Contents Tirami sù : Pope Benedict XIV and the beatification of the flying Saint Giuseppe da Copertino / Catrien Santing -- Medicine, enlightenment and Christianity in eighteenth-century France : the library evidence / L.W.B. Brockliss -- Moral lessons of perfection : a comparison of Mennonite and Calvinist motives in the anatomical atlases of Bidloo and Albinus / Rina Knoeff -- 'Imperfect chaos' : tropical medicine and exotic natural history c. 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt -- Johann Anton von Wolter (1711-87) : a Bavarian court physician between Aufklärung and Reaktion? / Claudia Stein --
Contents A medical miracle revisited : the enlightenment debate on a miraculous golden tooth / Robert Jütte -- Between anatomy and religion : the conversions to Catholicism of the two Danish anatomists Nicolaus Steno and Jacob Winsløw / Ole Peter Grell -- Medicine, witchcraft and the politics of healing in late seventeenth-century England / Peter Elmer -- Psychology and the laws of nature : from souls to the powers of the mind in the Scottish Enlightenment / John Henry.
General noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006036032
ISBN9780754656388
ISBN0754656381

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