Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe by Gijswit-Hofstra, Marijke

Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415135818)

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Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe by Gijswit-Hofstra, Marijke

Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe

$190.00
Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe by Gijswit-Hofstra, Marijke

Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe

$190.00
Format: Hardcover
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Despite the recent upsurge in interest in alternative medicine and unorthodox healers, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe is the first book to focus closely on the relationship between belief, culture, and healing in the past. In essays on France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and England, from the sixteenth century to the present day, the authors draw on a broad range of material, from studies of demonologists and reports of asylum doctors, to church archives and oral evidence.



Author: Marijke Gijswit-Hofstra
ISBN-10: 0415135818
ISBN-13: 9780415135818
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/10/1997
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d
By Marijke Gijswit-Hofstra
By Marijke Gijswit-Hofstra
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Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra is Professor of Social and Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on the history of witchcraft and alternative healing.,
Hilary Marland is Wellcome University Award Holder at the Centre for Social History, Warwick University, and is an editor of Social History of Medicine. Among her many publications are works on the history of midwifery.,
Hans de Waardt is Lecturer in History at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and has published extensively on witchcraft, sorcery and preacher-healers.

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