Faith in the great physician : suffering and divine healing in American culture, 1860-1900 / Heather D. Curtis.

  • Curtis, Heather D.
Date:
2007
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Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Physical description

xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-259) and index.

Contents

A thorn in the flesh : pain, illness, and religion in mid-nineteenth-century America -- Resisting resignation : the rise of religious healing in the late-nineteenth century -- Acting faith : the devotional ethics and gendered dynamics of divine healing -- The use of means : divine healing as devotional practice -- Houses of healing : sacred space, social geography, and gender in divine healing -- The Lord for the body, the gospel for the nations : divine healing and social reform.

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    History of Medicine
    CW.6.AA8
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  • 9780801886867
  • 0801886864