Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe. Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham. The History of Medicine in Context. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. x + 267 pp. $114.95 cloth.

摘要

Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe is a valuable collection ofnpapers from a conference held at Cambridge in 2004. The book containsnthirteen chapters, plus an introduction by co-editor Andrew Cunningham thatnsets the volume in context and introduces the various chapters. While therenis some inconsistency in the quality and scope of the essays, overall, thisnvolume is an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly reconsideration of the complex relationship between reason, religion, and medical theory andnpractice during the eighteenth century. Those interested in detailed and fine-ngrained analyses of the medical theory and practice of the eighteenth centurynand its connection with Christian thought and practice will certainly want tonexamine this book carefully. Readers seeking either a comprehensive surveynof medicine in the period, or a thorough examination of the relationshipnbetween medicine and religion in the Enlightenment, could probably donbetter with other more systematic treatments of the era.