Medicine and the Body 0761956395, 9780761956396

Medicine, Religion, and the Body [1 ed.] 9789047444008, 9789004179707

This book develops an interdiscplinary as well as cross cultural and historical analyses of the relationship between med

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The Body Within: Art, Medicine and Visualization 9047429656, 9789047429654

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Rethinking the mind-body relationship in early modern literature, philosophy and medicine: the renaissance of the body 9781138823914, 9781315741789, 1138823910

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The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine 9789004356771, 9004356770

The Comparable Body explores how analogy and metaphor illuminate and shape conceptions about the human body and disease,

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We Lived for the Body: Natural Medicine and Public Health in Imperial Germany 9781501758096

Nature was central to the Wilhelmine German experience. Medical cosmologies and reform-initiatives were a key to consume

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We Lived for the Body: Natural Medicine and Public Health in Imperial Germany 160909154X, 9781609091545

Nature was central to the Wilhelmine German experience. Medical cosmologies and reform-initiatives were a key to consume

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Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba 9780822395140

An ethnography of post-Soviet Cubas health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state.

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Lord for the Body: Religion, Medicine, and Protestant Faith Healing in Canada, 1880-1930 9780773574465

In the early 1920s, English-Canadians were captivated by the urban campaigns of faith healing evangelists. Crowds squeez

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The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine 9004284818, 9789004284814

In The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine Francesco Paolo de Ceglia offers an overvi

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Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages: Literature, Philosophy, Medicine 3110615916, 9783110615913

A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an

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