Religio medici : medicine and religion in seventeenth-century England
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Religio medici : medicine and religion in seventeenth-century England
Scolar Press , Ashgate Pub. Co., c1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Developments in medicine that took place in the 1600s were heavily influenced by the religious and politico-religious upheavals in English society. This work addresses the contending approaches to medicine at a time of dynastic flux, civil war and plague.
Table of Contents
- Medicine and religion in 17th-century England, Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham
- Sir Thomas Browne and his "Religio Medici" - reason, nature and religion, Andrew Cunningham
- the career of astrological medicine in England, Michael MacDonald
- institutional structures and personal belief in the London College of Physicians, Harold J. Cook
- anatomist atheist? the "hylozoistic" foundations of Francis Glisson's anatomical research, Guido Giglioni
- the physiology of reading and the anatomy of enthusiasm, Adrian Johns
- piety, physic and prodigious abstinence, Simon Schaffer
- plague, prayer and physic - Helmontian medicine in Restoration England, Ole Peter Grell
- of physic and philosophy - Anne Conway, F.M. van Helmont and 17th-century medicine, Sarah Hutton
- the reluctant philanthropist - Robert Boyle and the "Communication of Secrets and Receits in Physick", Michael Hunter
- the theology of affiliation and the experience of sickness in the godly family, David Harley
- Newtonianism, medicine and religion, Anita Guerrini
- quackery and enthusiasm, or why drinking water cured the plague, Mark Jenner.
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