Author: Robert Liveing
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368191837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Robert Liveing
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368191829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author: William Rainey Harper
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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"Books for New Testament study ... [By] Clyde Weber Votaw" v. 26, p. 271-320; v. 37, p. 289-352.

Author: Michael Glasby
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532669135
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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In this ground-breaking book, distinguished consultant clinical neurophysiologist Michael Glasby turns to the Bible to ask whether the practices of the Levitical priesthood might in any way have shared features of what we now commonly call ‘public healthcare’, contributing to the well-being of individuals and society. Is it the case that the priesthood understood some rudimentary elements of healthcare, or is this commonly held view merely the result of modern opinion formed (perhaps inappropriately) through an accumulation of later redaction and exegesis?

Author: Rod Edmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3

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An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning as a medical history, the book broadens into an examination of how Britain and its colonies responded to the believed spread of leprosy. Across the empire this involved isolating victims of the disease in 'colonies', often on offshore islands. Discussion of the segregation of lepers is then extended to analogous examples of this practice, which, it is argued, has been an essential part of the repertoire of colonialism in the modern period. The book also examines literary representations of leprosy in Romantic, Victorian and twentieth-century writing, and concludes with a discussion of traveller-writers such as R. L. Stevenson and Graham Greene who described and fictionalised their experience of staying in a leper colony.

Author: Peter Richards
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859915823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Medieval history is rich in rules and regulations for lepers, but reveals little of who they were or what became of them. This book searches for the reality of the individuals themselves, people who through their disease - or suspicion of it - contributed a unique chapter to social and medical history. Their hopes, fears, frustrations, and sufferings are explored partly through English medieval sources but mainly through the record of the remarkable survival of both leprosy and many medieval attitudes to it in the Aland islands between Sweden and Finland in the seventeenth century, where the struggle of a poor community both to contain the disease and to provide for those suffering from it were recorded for over a quarter of a century by the rural dean. The medical identity of medieval leprosy is confirmed from descriptions, from portraits (many previously unpublished or forgotten), and from the characteristic mutilations of bones; an appendix of original documents forms a unique collection of source material for social and medical historians. The late PETER RICHARDS was a former Professor of Medicine and Dean of St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and President of Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

Author: Robert Liveing
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Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: Darla Schumm
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230339492
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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This edited collection of essays examines how religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness. Contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation.