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Medical miracles : doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world

Title: Medical miracles : doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world / Jacalyn Duffin.
Author: Duffin, Jacalyn.
Publication: Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.

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Description

xv, 285 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

Catholic Church > Doctrines > History
Spiritual healing > Christianity > History
Christian saints > History
Miracles > History
Canonization
Medicine > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-274) and index.

Contents

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

Call Number

JFE 09-3127

ISBN

9780195336504 (hc : alk. paper)
019533650X (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008026678

OCLC

226360102

Author

Duffin, Jacalyn.

Title

Medical miracles : doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world / Jacalyn Duffin.

Imprint

Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-274) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 09-3127

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