Description: The first book to focus on belief, culture and healing in the past; the authors draw on a broad range of material, from studies of demonologists and reports of asylum doctors, to church archives and oral evidence.
Review Quotes:
'...those interested in the history of irregular or alternative medicine, witchcraft and demonology, the relations between medicine and religion, hysteria or twentieth-century abortion, will need to consult one or another of the articles in this collection.' - History Review