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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra; Hilary Marland; Hans de Waardt |
| ISBN: | 0415135818 9780415135818 |
| OCLC Number: | 37994437 |
| Description: | x, 272 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Magical healing, witchcraft and elite discourse in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France / Matthew Ramsey -- Demons and disease / Stuart Clark -- Demonic affliction or divine chastisement? Conceptions of illness and healing among spiritualists and Mennonites in Holland, c.1530-c.1630 / Gary K. Waite -- A false living saint in Cologne in the 1620s / Albrecht Burkardt -- Popular Pietism and the language of sickness / Willem Frijhoff -- Charcot's demons / Sarah Ferber -- Breaking the boundaries / Hans de Waardt -- Conversions to homoeopathy in the nineteenth century / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- Abortion for sale! The competition between quacks and doctors in Weimar Germany / Cornelie Usborne -- Healing alternatives in Alicante, Spain, in the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries / Enrique Perdiguero -- Bosom serpents and alimentary amphibians / Gillian Bennett -- Women as Winti healers / Ineke van Wetering. |
| Series Title: | Studies in the social history of medicine. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Hilary Marland, and Hans de Waardt. |
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