Illness and healing alternatives in Western Europe

Author(s)

• Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke
• Marland, Hilary
• De Waardt, Hans

Bibliographic Information

Illness and healing alternatives in Western Europe

edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Hilary Marland and Hans de Waardt

（Studies in the social history of medicine）

Routledge, 1997

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Despite the recent upsurge in interest in alternative medicine and unorthodox healers, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe is the first book to focus closely on the relationship between belief, culture, and healing in the past. In essays on France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and England, from the sixteenth century to the present day, the authors draw on a broad range of material, from studies of demonologists and reports of asylum doctors, to church archives and oral evidence.

Table of Contents

• Introduction, MarijkeGijswijt-Hofstra, HilaryMarland, Hans deWaardt
• Chapter 1 Magical healing, witchcraft andelite discourse in eighteenth- andnineteenth-century France, Matthew Ramsey
• Chapter 2 Demons and disease, StuartClark
• Chapter 3 Demonic affliction or divinechastisement?, Gary K.Waite
• Chapter 4 A false living saint in Cologne in the1620s, AlbrechtBurkardt
• Chapter 5 Popular Pietism and the language of sickness, WillemFrijhoff
• Chapter 6 Charcot's demons, SarahFerber
• Chapter 7 Breaking the boundaries, Hans deWaardt
• Chapter 8 Conversions to homoeopathy in the ineteenth century, MarijkeGijswijt-Hofstra
• Chapter 9 Abortion for sale!, CornelieUsborne
• Chapter 10 Healing alternatives in Alicante, Spain, in the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries, EnriquePerdiguero
• Chapter 11 Bosom serpents and alimentary amphibians, GillianBennett
• Chapter 12 Women as Winti healers, Ineke vanWetering

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Details

• NCID: BA32761226
• ISBN:
  • 0415135818
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 272 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 615.5/094
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13387461