The course of God's providence : religion, health, and the body in early America / Philippa Koch.

"This book tells the story of religion and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. It rejects simplistic frameworks of secularization and enlightenment and emphasizes, instead, continuing and powerful Protestant ideas of God's oversight in shaping and motivating human activity in the real...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:North American religions.
Main Author: Koch, Philippa (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Series:North American religions.
Subjects:
Medicine > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 18th century.
Medicine > United States > History > 18th century.
United States > Church history > 18th century.
Health > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 18th century.
Health > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Medicine.
Medicine > Religious aspects > Christianity.
United States.
1700-1799
Church history.
History.
Genre:
Church history.
History.
Physical Description:xiv, 265 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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