Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe

By:

Andrew Cunningham

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Hardback

Series:

The History of Medicine in Context

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The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. With respect to medicine this means that the religious elements in the treatment and interpretation of diseases to all intents and purposes disappeared. However, there are growing indications in recent scholarship that this may well be an overstatement. Indeed it appears that religion retained many of its customary relations with medicine. This volume explores how far, and the ways in which, this was still the case. It looks at this multi-faceted relationship with respect to among others: medical care and death in hospitals, religious vocation and nursing, chemical medicine and religion, the clergy and medicine, the continued significance of popular medicine, faith healing, dissection and religion, and religious dissent and medical innovation. Within these significant areas the volume provides a European perspective which will make it possible to draw comparisons and determine differences.

Author Biography:

Ole Peter Grell is Professor in Early Modern History and Director of the Renaissance and Early Modern Research Group at The Open University, UK. Andrew Cunningham is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. He also wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 series The Making of Modern Medicine. Andrew Cunningham, Jonathan I. Israel, Timothy Walker, Jose Pardo-Tomas, Alvar Martinez-Vidal, Maria Conforti, Catrien Santing, L.W.B. Brockliss, Rina Knoeff, Benjamin Schmidt, Claudia Stein, Robert Jutte, Ole Peter Grell, Peter ElmerJohn Henry.

Release date NZ

August 28th, 2007

Author

Andrew Cunningham

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Contributor

Edited by Ole Peter Grell

Pages

278

Series

The History of Medicine in Context

ISBN-13

9780754656388

Product ID

3887778

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