This volume explores the relationship between medicine and religion during the Enlightenment Period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789. 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.…mehr
This volume explores the relationship between medicine and religion during the Enlightenment Period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789. 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.
Contents: Introduction: 'where there are 3 physicians, there are 2 atheists', Andrew Cunningham; Enlightenment, radical enlightenment and the 'medical revolution' of the late 17th and 18th 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-Tomà s and ÃEURlvar Martìnez-Vidal; Medicine, history and religion in Naples in the 17th and 18th centuries, Maria Conforti; Tirami sù. Pope Benedict XIV and the beatification of the flying saint Guiseppe da Copertino, Catrien Santing; Medicine, enlightenment and Christianity in 18th 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 (1711-1787): a Bavarian court physician between aufklà rung and reaktion?, Claudia Stein; A medical miracle revisited: the enlightenment debate on a miraculous golden tooth, Robert Jà tte; Between anatomy and religion: the conversions to Catholicism of the 2 Danish anatomists: Nicolaus Steno and Jacob Winslà w, Ole Peter Grell; Medicine, witchcraft and the politics of healing in late 17th century England, Peter Elmer; Psychology and the laws of nature: from souls to the powers of the mind in the Scottish enlightenment, John Henry; Index.
Contents: Introduction: 'where there are 3 physicians, there are 2 atheists', Andrew Cunningham; Enlightenment, radical enlightenment and the 'medical revolution' of the late 17th and 18th 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-Tomà s and ÃEURlvar Martìnez-Vidal; Medicine, history and religion in Naples in the 17th and 18th centuries, Maria Conforti; Tirami sù. Pope Benedict XIV and the beatification of the flying saint Guiseppe da Copertino, Catrien Santing; Medicine, enlightenment and Christianity in 18th 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 (1711-1787): a Bavarian court physician between aufklà rung and reaktion?, Claudia Stein; A medical miracle revisited: the enlightenment debate on a miraculous golden tooth, Robert Jà tte; Between anatomy and religion: the conversions to Catholicism of the 2 Danish anatomists: Nicolaus Steno and Jacob Winslà w, Ole Peter Grell; Medicine, witchcraft and the politics of healing in late 17th century England, Peter Elmer; Psychology and the laws of nature: from souls to the powers of the mind in the Scottish enlightenment, John Henry; Index.
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