Illness and healing alternatives in Western Europe /

Illness and healing alternatives in Western Europe / edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Hilary Marland, and Hans de Waardt. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1997. - 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) - Studies in the social history of medicine . - Studies in the social history of medicine. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Magical healing, witchcraft and elite discourse in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France / Matthew Ramsey -- 2. Demons and disease : the disenchantment of the sick (1500-1700) / Stuart Clark -- 3. Demonic affliction or divine chastisement? : conceptions of illness and healing among spiritualists and Mennonites in Holland, c. 1530-c. 1630 / Gary K. Waite -- 4. A false living saint in Cologne in the 1620s : the case of Sophia Agnes von Langenberg / Albrecht Burkardt -- 5. Popular pietism and the language of sickness : Evert Willemsz's conversion, 1622-23 / Willem Frijhoff -- 6. Charcot's demons : retrospective medicine and historical diagnosis in the writings of the Salpetriere school / Sarah Ferber -- 7. Breaking the boundaries : irregular healers in eighteenth-century Holland / Hans de Waardt -- 8. Conversions to homeopathy in the nineteenth century : the rationality of medical deviance / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- 9. Abortion for sale! : the competition between quacks and doctors in Weimar Germany / Cornelie Usborne -- 10. Healing alternatives in Alicante, Spain, in the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries / Enrique Perdiguero -- 11. Bosom serpents and alimentary amphibians : a language for sickness / Gillian Bennett -- 12. Women as Winti healers : rationality and contradiction in the preservation of a Suriname healing tradition / Ineke van Wetering.

The first book to focus on belief, culture and healing in the past; the authors draw on a broad range of material, from studies of demonologists and reports of asylum doctors, to church archives and oral evidence.

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