IIIness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe Book

	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: demons, diagnosis and disenchantment	1
1	Magical healing, witchcraft and elite discourse in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France	14
2	Demons and disease: the disenchantment of the sick (1500-1700)	38
3	Demonic affliction or divine chastisement? Conceptions of illness and healing among spiritualists and Mennonites in Holland, c.1530-c.1630	59
4	A false living saint in Cologne in the 1620s: the case of Sophia Agnes von Langenberg	80
5	Popular Pietism and the language of sickness: Evert Willemsz's conversion, 1622-23	98
6	Charcot's demons: retrospective medicine and historical diagnosis in the writings of the Salpetriere school	120
7	Breaking the boundaries: irregular healers in eighteenth-century Holland	141
8	Conversions to homoeopathy in the nineteenth century: the rationality of medical deviance	161
9	Abortion for sale! The competition between quacks and doctors in Weimar Germany	183
10	Healing alternatives in Alicante, Spain, in the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries	205
11	Bosom serpents and alimentary amphibians: a language for sickness	224
12	Women as Winti healers: rationality and contradiction in the preservation of a Suriname healing tradition	262
	Index	262