Medicine and religion in Enlightenment Europe. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.
• Other Names: Grell, Ole Peter; Dr, Cunningham, Andrew
• Contents: Enlightenment, radical enlightenment, and the 'medical revolution' of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jonathan I. Israel -- Physicians and surgeons in the service of the Inquisition : the nexus of religion and conventional medical training in Enlightenment-era Portugal / Timothy Walker -- The ignorance of midwives : the role of clergymen in Spanish Enlightenment debates on birth care / José Pardo-Tomás and Àlvar Martínez-Vidal -- Medicine, history and religion in Naples in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Maria Conforti -- Tirami sù : Pope Benedict XIV and the beatification of the flying Saint Giuseppe da Copertino / Catrien Santing -- Medicine, enlightenment and Christianity in eighteenth-century France : the library evidence / L.W.B. Brockliss -- Moral lessons of perfection : a comparison of Mennonite and Calvinist motives in the anatomical atlases of Bidloo and Albinus / Rina Knoeff -- 'Imperfect chaos' : tropical medicine and exotic natural history c. 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt -- Johann Anton von Wolter (1711-87) : a Bavarian court physician between Aufklärung and Reaktion? / Claudia Stein -- A medical miracle revisited : the enlightenment debate on a miraculous golden tooth / Robert Jütte -- Between anatomy and religion : the conversions to Catholicism of the two Danish anatomists Nicolaus Steno and Jacob Winsløw / Ole Peter Grell -- Medicine, witchcraft and the politics of healing in late seventeenth-century England / Peter Elmer -- Psychology and the laws of nature : from souls to the powers of the mind in the Scottish Enlightenment / John Henry.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (278 pages)
• Subjects: 201.661094; Medicine -- Religious aspects -- History; Enlightenment -- Europe; Religion and Medicine -- Europe; History of Medicine -- Europe; History, 17th Century -- Europe; History, 18th Century -- Europe
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351918701; 1351918702
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.