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Medical miracles

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  • "Doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world"

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  • ""Modern culture tends to separate medicine and miracles, but their histories are closely intertwined. The Roman Catholic Church recognizes saints through canonization based on evidence that they worked miracles, as signs of their proximity to God. Physician and historian Jacalyn Duffin has examined Vatican sources on 1400 miracles from six continents and spanning four centuries. Overwhelmingly the miracles cited in canonizations between 1588 and 1999 are healings, and the majority entail medical care and physician testimony. These remarkable records contain intimate stories of illness, prayer, and treatment, as told by people who rarely leave traces: peasants and illiterates, men and women, old and young. A woman's breast tumor melts away; a man's wounds knit; a lame girl suddenly walks; a dead baby revives. Suspicious of wishful thinking or naive enthusiasm, skeptical clergy shaped the inquiries to identify recoveries that remain unexplained by the best doctors of the era. The tales of healing are supplemented with substantial testimony from these physicians. Some elements of the miracles change through time. Duffin shows that doctors increase in number; new technologies are embraced quickly; diagnoses shift with altered capabilities. But other aspects of the miracles are stable. The narratives follow a dramatic structure, shaped by the formal questions asked of each witness and by perennial reactions to illness and healing. In this history, medicine and religion emerge as parallel endeavors aimed at deriving meaningful signs from particular instances of human distress -- signs to explain, alleviate, and console in confrontation with suffering and mortality."--Jacket."
  • ""Jacalyn Duffin has examined either the full testimony or the Vatican summaries of more than 670 miracles reported in 35 countries on six continents from the late 17th century to the 21st. She situates the postmodern debate about the mind/body relationship within the timeless tradition of saintly healing."--Résumé de l'éditeur."

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  • "Llibres electrònics"
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  • "Medical miracles"@en
  • "Medical Miracles : Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World"
  • "Medical miracles : doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world"@en
  • "Medical miracles : doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world"
  • "Medical miracles doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world"
  • "Medical miracles doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world"@en
  • "Medical Miracles. Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World"
  • "Medical Miracles. Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World"@en

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