Medicine and religion in Enlightenment Europe /
During the Enlightenment, the religious elements in the treatment and interpretation of diseases to all intents and purposes disappeared. However, recent scholarship suggests that this may well be an overstatement and that religion retained many of its customary relations with medicine. This text ex...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2007]
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| Series: | History of medicine in context.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
| Summary: | During the Enlightenment, the religious elements in the treatment and interpretation of diseases to all intents and purposes disappeared. However, recent scholarship suggests that this may well be an overstatement and that religion retained many of its customary relations with medicine. This text explores how far this was true. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780754656388 (hardback : alk. paper) 0754656381 (hardback : alk. paper) |