Medicine and religion in Enlightenment Europe / edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007], ©2007.

viii, 267 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Enlightenment, radical enlightenment, and the 'medical revolution' of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jonathan I. Israel -- Physicians and surgeons in the service of the Inquisition : the nexus of religion and conventional medical training in Enlightenment-era Portugal / Timothy Walker -- The ignorance of midwives : the role of clergymen in Spanish Enlightenment debates on birth care / José Pardo-Tomás and Àlvar Martínez-Vidal -- Medicine, history and religion in Naples in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Maria Conforti --

Tirami sù : Pope Benedict XIV and the beatification of the flying Saint Giuseppe da Copertino / Catrien Santing -- Medicine, enlightenment and Christianity in eighteenth-century France : the library evidence / L.W.B. Brockliss -- Moral lessons of perfection : a comparison of Mennonite and Calvinist motives in the anatomical atlases of Bidloo and Albinus / Rina Knoeff -- 'Imperfect chaos' : tropical medicine and exotic natural history c. 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt -- Johann Anton von Wolter (1711-87) : a Bavarian court physician between Aufklärung and Reaktion? / Claudia Stein --

A medical miracle revisited : the enlightenment debate on a miraculous golden tooth / Robert Jütte -- Between anatomy and religion : the conversions to Catholicism of the two Danish anatomists Nicolaus Steno and Jacob Winsløw / Ole Peter Grell -- Medicine, witchcraft and the politics of healing in late seventeenth-century England / Peter Elmer -- Psychology and the laws of nature : from souls to the powers of the mind in the Scottish Enlightenment / John Henry.

Includes bibliographical references and index.