Medicine and the Reformation / Edition 1

by Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell

Overview

The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine and the ideas underpinning it within the context of the period and see what changes it underwent.
Medicine and the Reformation charts how both popular and official religion affected orthodox medicine as well as more popular healers. Illustrating the central part played by medicine in Lutheran teachings, the Calvinistic rationalization of disease, and the Catholic responses, the contributors offer new perspectives on the relation of religion and medicine in the early modern period. It will be of interest to social historians as well as specialists in the history of medicine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415089746
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/24/1993
Series:	Wellcome Institute Series in the History
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cunningham, Andrew; Grell, Ole Peter

Table of Contents

Vivian Nutton, Wellcome Institute, London; Sachiko Kusukawa, Cambridge; David Harley, Oxford; Richard Palmer, Lambeth Palace Library, London; David Gentilcore, Cambridge; Luis Garcia-Ballester, Consell Superiou d'Investigacions Cientifiques, Barcelona, Spain

Editorial Reviews

‘... an extremely useful collection.' - Paul Slack Social History of Medicine

'It certainly succeeds in showing the need to look at medical developments in the light of the religious culture in which they take place.' - History Review

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