Medical miracles : doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world
Duffin, JacalynAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2009.
Jacalyn Duffin has examined either the full testimony or the Vatican summaries of more than 670 miracles reported in 35 countries on six continents from the late 17th century to the 21st. She situates the postmodern debate about the mind/body relationship within the timeless tradition of saintly healing.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Jacalyn Duffin has examined either the full testimony or the Vatican summaries of more than 670 miracles reported in 35 countries on six continents from the late 17th century to the 21st. She situates the postmodern debate about the mind/body relationship within the timeless tradition of saintly healing.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making saints : miracles, medicine, and evidence since 1588 -- The supplicants and their saints -- The miracles : diseases, corpses, and other wonders -- The doctors : medical knowledge in the canonization process -- The cure as drama : gestures of invocation and the context of cure -- Conclusion : religion, medicine, and miracles.
Catholic Church
Spiritual healing
Christian saints
Miracles
Canonization
Medicine
Spiritual Therapies
Christianity
Religion
Humanities
Complementary Therapies
Therapeutics
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Religion and Medicine
Faith Healing
Saints
Religion
Philosophy & Religion
Christianity