Medicine and the Reformation

Ole Peter Grell

Psychology Press, 1993 - 197 páginas

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.

Índice

• Wittenberg anatomy: 11
• Melanchthon and astrology: 33
• medicine as popular protest: 57
• Caspar Bartholin and the education of the pious physician: 78
• Spiritual physic Providence and English medicine 15601640: 101
• Physicians and the Inquisition in sixteenthcentury Venice: 118
• The Church the Devil and the healing activities of living: 134
• The Inquisition and minority medical practitioners: 156
• Index: 192

Información bibliográfica

• Título: Medicine and the Reformation; Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
• Autor: Ole Peter Grell
• Editores: Ole Peter Grell, Dr. Andrew Cunningham
• Edición: ilustrada
• Editor: Psychology Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0415089743, 9780415089746
• N.º de páginas: 197 páginas