Medicine And The Saints

Author : Ellen J. Amster
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292754812

Get Book

Medicine and the Saints by Ellen J. Amster Pdf

The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise, Medicine and the Saints traces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of medical encounters between the Islamic sultanate of Morocco and the Republic of France from 1877 to 1956. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources in both French and Arabic, Ellen Amster investigates the positivist ambitions of French colonial doctors, sociologists, philologists, and historians; the social history of the encounters and transformations occasioned by French medical interventions; and the ways in which Moroccan nationalists ultimately appropriated a French model of modernity to invent the independent nation-state. Each chapter of the book addresses a different problem in the history of medicine: international espionage and a doctor's murder; disease and revolt in Moroccan cities; a battle for authority between doctors and Muslim midwives; and the search for national identity in the welfare state. This research reveals how Moroccans ingested and digested French science and used it to create a nationalist movement and Islamist politics, and to understand disease and health. In the colonial encounter, the Muslim body became a seat of subjectivity, the place from which individuals contested and redefined the political.

Author : Jacalyn Duffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199743179

Get Book

Medical Saints by Jacalyn Duffin Pdf

This book is an exploration of illness and healing experiences in contemporary society through the veneration of saints: primarily the twin doctors Saints Cosmas and Damian. It also follows the author's personal journey from her role as a hematologist who inadvertently served as an expert witness in a miracle to her research as a historian on the origins, meaning and functions of saints. Sources include interviews with devotees in both North America and Europe. Cosmas and Damian were martyred around the year 300 A.D. in what is now Syria. Called the "Anargyroi" (without silver) because they charged no fees, they became patrons of medicine, surgery, and pharmacy as their cult spread widely across Europe. The near eastern origin explains their popularity in Byzantine and Orthodox traditions and the concentration of their shrines in Eastern Europe, Southern Italy, and Sicily. The Medici family of Florence also viewed the "santi medici" as patrons, and their deeds were depicted by great Renaissance artists. In medical literature they are now revered as patrons of transplantation. Duffin's research focuses on how people have taken the saints with them as they moved within Italy and beyond. It also shows that their veneration is not confined to immigrant traditions, and that it fills important functions in health care and healing. Duffin's conclusions are situated within scholarship in medicine, medical history, sociology, anthropology, and popular religion; and intersect with the current medical debate over spiritual healing. This work springs from medical history and Roman Catholic traditions; however, it extends to general observations about the behaviors of sick people and about the formal responses to individual illness from collectivities in religion, medicine, and, indeed, history.

Author : Jacalyn Duffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199910953

Get Book

Medical Saints by Jacalyn Duffin Pdf

Cosmas and Damian were martyred around the year 300 A.D. in what is now Syria. Called the Anargyroi ("without silver") because they charged no fees, they became patrons of medicine, surgery, and pharmacy and the focus of cults ranging across Europe. They were popular in Byzantine and Orthodox traditions and their shrines are numerous in Eastern Europe, southern Italy, and Sicily. The Medici family of Florence viewed the "santi medici" as patrons, and their deeds were illustrated by great Renaissance artists. In medical literature they are now revered as patrons of transplantation. Jacalyn Duffin offers a profound exploration of illness and healing experiences in contemporary society through the veneration of the twin doctors Saints Cosmas and Damian. She also relates a personal journey, from her role as a hematologist who unexpectedly came to serve as an expert witness in the Church's evaluation of a miracle to her research as a historican on the origins, meaning, and functions of saints. Duffin's research, which includes interviews with devotees in both North America and Europe, focuses on how people have taken the saints with them as they moved both within Italy and beyond. She shows that veneration of Cosmas and Damian has spread beyond immigrant traditions to fill important functions in healthcare and healing. Duffin's conclusions provide essential insights into medical history, sociology, anthropology, and popular religion, as well as the current medical debate over spiritual healing. Medical Saints draws on medical history and Roman Catholic traditions, but extends to universal observations about the behaviors of sick people and the formal responses to individual illness from collectivities in religion, medicine, and history.

Author : Ellen J. Amster
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292745445

Get Book

Medicine and the Saints by Ellen J. Amster Pdf

The colonial encounter between France and Morocco in the late nineteenth century took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise, Medicine and the Saints traces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of medical encounters between the Islamic sultanate of Morocco and the Republic of France from 1877 to 1956. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources in both French and Arabic, Ellen Amster investigates the positivist ambitions of French colonial doctors, sociologists, philologists, and historians; the social history of the encounters and transformations occasioned by French medical interventions; and the ways in which Moroccan nationalists ultimately appropriated a French model of modernity to invent the independent nation-state. Each chapter of the book addresses a different problem in the history of medicine: international espionage and a doctor's murder; disease and revolt in Moroccan cities; a battle for authority between doctors and Muslim midwives; and the search for national identity in the welfare state. This research reveals how Moroccans ingested and digested French science and used it to create a nationalist movement and Islamist politics, and to understand disease and health. In the colonial encounter, the Muslim body became a seat of subjectivity, the place from which individuals contested and redefined the political.

Author : Jacalyn Duffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195336504

Get Book

Medical Miracles by Jacalyn Duffin Pdf

Making saints : miracles, medicine, and evidence since 1588 -- The supplicants and their saints -- The miracles : diseases, corpses, and other wonders -- Doctors and medical knowledge in the canonization process -- Healing as drama : gestures of invocation and the context of cure -- Conclusion : religion, medicine, and miracles.

Author : David Hilfiker, M.D.
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466802919

Get Book

Not All of Us Are Saints by David Hilfiker, M.D. Pdf

"A powerful report of the experiences of a physician living and practicing medicine in the inner city ... A deeply disturbing picture of the degradation of ghetto life and a painfully honest account of one man's attempt to do something about it." - Kirkus Reviews

Author : Lester E. Bush
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004424136

Get Book

Health and Medicine Among the Latter-day Saints by Lester E. Bush Pdf

A fascinating introduction to the "quintessential American religion" by a Mormon doctor and scholar. Bush addresses 10 key themes from the Mormon point of view--dying, passages, well-being, healing, suffering, madness, sexuality, caring, dignity, and morality--as well as healing practices and the Mormon health code.

Author : Seymour Schwartz,Christopher Hoolihan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1576263487

Get Book

Holystic Medicine by Seymour Schwartz,Christopher Hoolihan Pdf

Holystic Medicine is a unique combination of medicine, art, and religious history. This magnificent book provides a fascinating account of the different patron saints of medicine with intriguing insights into their backgrounds and the particular diseases or conditions they are associated with and why. An illustrated calendar places each of the saints in their respective months. The elegant design and iconography will make this a treasured addition to your library. This beautiful work will make a fabulous gift for any occasion. Treat yourself and your friends and family to a remarkable reading experience.

Author : Grete de Francesco,John Gerlitt,Wolfgang Born
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Medicine and art
ISBN : OCLC:81199388

Get Book

Saints in Medicine by Grete de Francesco,John Gerlitt,Wolfgang Born Pdf

Author : Ruth J. Salter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Angleterre
ISBN : 9781914049002

Get Book

Saints, Cure-seekers and Miraculous Healing in Twelfth-century England by Ruth J. Salter Pdf

The cults of the saints were central to the medieval Church. These holy men and women acted as patrons and protectors to the religious communities who housed their relics and to the devotees who requested their assistance in petitioning God for a miracle. Among the collections of posthumous miracle stories, miracula, accounts of holy healing feature prominently and depict cure-seekers successfully securing their desired remedy for a range of ailments and afflictions. What can these miracle accounts tell us of the cure-seekers' experiences of their journey from ill health to recovery, and how was healthcare presented in these sources? This book undertakes an in-depth study of the miraculous cure-seeking process through the lens of Latin miracle accounts produced in twelfth-century England, a time both when saints' cults particularly flourished and there was an increasing transmission and dissemination of classical and Arabic medical works. Focused on shorter miracula with a predominantly localised focus, and thus on a select group of cure-seekers, it brings together studies of healthcare and pilgrimage to look at an alternative to medical intervention and the practicalities and processes of securing saintly assistance.

Author : Jenni Kuuliala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Canonization
ISBN : 9462983372

Get Book

Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages by Jenni Kuuliala Pdf

Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period. Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages analyses the meanings given to putative saints' bodily infirmities in late medieval canonization hearings. How was an individual saint's bodily ailment investigated in the inquests, and how did the witnesses (re)construct the saintly candidates' ailments? What meanings were given to infirmity when providing proofs for holiness? This study depicts holy infirmity as an aspect of sanctity that is largely defined within the community, in continual dialogue with devotees, people suffering from doubt, the holy person, and the cultural patterns ascribed to saintly life. Furthermore, it analyses how the meanings given to saints' infirmities influenced and reflected society's attitudes towards bodily ailments -- or dis/ability -- in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015070230019

Get Book

Saint Jospeh Medical Herald by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015081125208

Get Book

Bibliography of the History of Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gary B. Ferngren
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421420066

Get Book

Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity by Gary B. Ferngren Pdf

Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive historical account of medicine and medical philanthropy in the first five centuries of the Christian era. Ferngren first describes how early Christians understood disease. He examines the relationship of early Christian medicine to the natural and supernatural modes of healing found in the Bible. Despite biblical accounts of demonic possession and miraculous healing, Ferngren argues that early Christians generally accepted naturalistic assumptions about disease and cared for the sick with medical knowledge gleaned from the Greeks and Romans. Ferngren also explores the origins of medical philanthropy in the early Christian church. Rather than viewing illness as punishment for sins, early Christians believed that the sick deserved both medical assistance and compassion. Even as they were being persecuted, Christians cared for the sick within and outside of their community. Their long experience in medical charity led to the creation of the first hospitals, a singular Christian contribution to health care. "A succinct, thoughtful, well-written, and carefully argued assessment of Christian involvement with medical matters in the first five centuries of the common era . . . It is to Ferngren's credit that he has opened questions and explored them so astutely. This fine work looks forward as well as backward; it invites fuller reflection of the many senses in which medicine and religion intersect and merits wide readership."—Journal of the American Medical Association "In this superb work of historical and conceptual scholarship, Ferngren unfolds for the reader a cultural milieu of healing practices during the early centuries of Christianity."—Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith "Readable and widely researched . . . an important book for mission studies and American Catholic movements, the book posits the question of what can take its place in today's challenging religious culture."—Missiology: An International Review Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and a professor of the history of medicine at First Moscow State Medical University. He is the author of Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction and the editor of Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction.

Author : Robert A. Scott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520271340

Get Book

Miracle Cures by Robert A. Scott Pdf

"Scott has written a magnificent book on the realities of religious healing. He brings sensibility, reason, impressive insight, and the best information to bear—qualities seldom manifested in the centuries of claim, cynicism, and controversy on the topic. His analysis is destined to raise the level of discourse on dramatic religious experiences."—Neil Smelser, author of The Odyssey Experience