Miracle cures
Subtitle: saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief
By: Robert A. Scott.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520262751
Subjects: Spiritual healing; Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Miracles
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Saints, pilgrimage, and miracles; title: Life in the Middle Ages; title: Saints; title: Apparitions; title: Pilgrimage and shrines; title: Saints, pilgrimage, and healing; title: Disease; title: The role stress in illness; title: Belief, hope, and healing; title: Framing, confessing, and healing; title: Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines; title: Appendix B: Other placebo studies.