Syphilis, Puritanism and witch hunts : historical explanations in the light of medicine and psychoanalysis with a forecast about Aids
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Syphilis, Puritanism and witch hunts : historical explanations in the light of medicine and psychoanalysis with a forecast about Aids
Macmillan, 1989
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a revised collection of articles which were previously published in "Encounter", the most substantial addition being the extracts from treaties on demonology. It contains a forecast of the social impact of Aids in the light of the history of older diseases. The author also wrote "Social Sciences as Sorcery", "The African Predicament", "Parasitism and Subversion in Latin America"; "The Uses of Comparative Sociology", "Military Organization and Society", "The Prospect of a Revolution in the USA"; "Max Weber's Insights and Errors".
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The thesis: syphilis, puritanism and capitalism
- syphilis, celibacy and witch hunts. Part 2 The demonologists fascination with lust and disease illustrated from the sources
- Montague Summers' compilations
- Henri Boguet
- Nicholas Remy
- Franscesco Guazzo
- Pierre de Lancre
- George Sinclair
- Lodovico Sinistrari
- the impact of Aids on social life, possibilities and likelihoods
- wickedness, madness and error - on the limits of usefulness of psychoanalysis in historical explanations.
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