Book ID: CBB547581654

The Smoke of the Soul: Medicine, Physiology and Religion in Early Modern England (2013)

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"What was the soul? For hundreds of years Christians agreed that it was the essential, immortal core of each individual believer, and of the Christian faith in general. Despite this, there was no agreement on where the soul was, what it was, or how it could be joined to the material body. By focusing on the spirits of blood which were alleged to join body and soul, this book explores the peculiar problems, anxieties, and excitement generated by a zone where spirit met matter, and the earthly the divine. It shows how pious but rigorous Christians such as John Donne and Walter Raleigh expressed their dissatisfaction with existing theories of body-soul integration; how prone the soul was to being materialised; and how an increasingly scientific medical culture hunted the material aspects of the soul out of the human body"--

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Review Guido Giglioni (2015) Review of "The Smoke of the Soul: Medicine, Physiology and Religion in Early Modern England". Social History of Medicine (pp. 401-402). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Oren-Magidor, Daphna
Lemon, Rebecca
Hadass, Ofer
Garau, Rodolfo
Weemans, Michel
Clifton, James
Concepts
Religion
Medicine and culture
Medicine
Natural philosophy
Science and religion
Physiology
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
15th century
Places
England
Europe
Rome (Italy)
London (England)
Scandinavia; Nordic countries
Italy
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