Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe (The History of Medicine in Context)
Contributors: Ole Peter Grell (Editor); Andrew Cunningham (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: August 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780754656388
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History of medicine; History of religion; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History; Modern - General; Medical; Enlightenment; Europe; Medicine; Religion and Medicine; Religious aspects
Description: During the Enlightenment, the religious elements in the treatment and interpretation of diseases to all intents and purposes disappeared. However, recent scholarship suggests that this may well be an overstatement and that religion retained many of its customary relations with medicine. This text explores how far this was true.