A fever in Salem : a new interpretation of the New England witch trials / Laurie Winn Carlson.

  • Carlson, Laurie M., 1952-
Date:
1999
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Chicago : I.R. Dee, 1999.

Physical description

xvi, 197 pages ; 22 cm

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: John Coutts

Contents

The witch craze in Seventeenth-century New England.--The afflicted.--The response.--Mental illness and the persecution of witches.--The forgotten epidemic.--What happened at Salem?.--Alternative outcomes.--Could encephalitis lethargica return?.--Satanic possession and Christian beliefs.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references (p. 183-188) and index

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    History of Medicine
    BVD.614.AA6
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ISBN

  • 1566632536