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Medicine, magic, and religion; the Fitz Patrick lectures delivered before the Royal college of physicians of London in 1915 and 1916

Title
Medicine, magic, and religion; the Fitz Patrick lectures delivered before the Royal college of physicians of London in 1915 and 1916, by W.H.R. Rivers ... with a preface by G. Elliot Smith, F.R.S.
Author
Rivers, W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers), 1864-1922.
Publication
London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.; New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1924.

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Description
viii, 146, [1] pages.
Series Statement
International library of psychology, philosophy and scientific method
Uniform Title
Fitzpatrick lectures ; 1915-1916.
Subject
  • Traditional medicine
  • Medicine > History
  • Magic
  • Religion
  • Medicine > Religious aspects
  • Folklore > history
  • History of Medicine
  • Magic
  • Medicine, Traditional
  • Religion and Medicine
  • Religion
  • history of medicine
  • religion (discipline)
  • illusion (performing art)
  • magic (occult science)
  • Medicine > Religious aspects
  • Medicine
  • Traditional medicine
  • Ethnomédecine
Genre/Form
History
Contents
Disease or injury ascribed to magic -- Magical action on victim's body -- Disease and taboo -- Religious character -- Consideration on rival views -- Beliefs in causation of disease -- Medicine and religion -- Mind and medicine.
LCCN
24016805
OCLC
  • ocm06230501
  • 6230501
  • SCSB-104930
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library