Madness : American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries / Heather H. Vacek.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (284 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781481300599 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Madness : American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries.DDC classification:
  • 261.8/3220973 23
LOC classification:
  • BT732.4 .M285 2015eb
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Contents:
Making theological sense out of suffering, sin, and sickness / Cotton Mather -- Christian vocation and the shape the secular profession / Benjamin Rush -- Advocating for the helpless, forgotten, and insane / Dorothea Dix -- Reclaiming religious authority in medicine / Anton Boisen -- A passionate plea to engage finds lukewarm reaction / Karl Menninger.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making theological sense out of suffering, sin, and sickness / Cotton Mather -- Christian vocation and the shape the secular profession / Benjamin Rush -- Advocating for the helpless, forgotten, and insane / Dorothea Dix -- Reclaiming religious authority in medicine / Anton Boisen -- A passionate plea to engage finds lukewarm reaction / Karl Menninger.

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