This book is an exploration of illness and healing experiences in contemporary society through the veneration of saints, primarily the twin doctors Saints Cosmas and Damian. It also follows the author's personal journey from her role as a hematologist who inadvertently served as an expert witness in a miracle to her research as a historian on the origins, meaning and functions of saints. Sources include interviews with devotees in both North America and Europe.

Medical Saints is a thoroughly interesting and dynamic study

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Jacalyn Duffin, M.D. (Toronto 1974), FRCP(C) (1979), Ph.D. (Sorbonne 1985), is the Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at Queen's University in Kingston where she has taught in medicine, philosophy, history, and law for more than twenty years. A practicing hematologist and historian, she has served as President of both the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of seven books and many research articles, most recently Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing, 1588-1999.

Inhalt

• List of Illustrations

• List of Tables

• Prologue

• Acknowledgements

• Chapter One: Medical Miracle

• Chapter Two: Doctor Twins: from Cyrrhus to Toronto

• Chapter Three: Talking to Pilgrims in the New World

• Chapter Four: Chasing Saints in the Old World

• Chapter Five: Miracles, Medicine, and MEDLINE

• Chapter Six: Conclusion: Home to the Clinic

• Epilogue

• Tables

• Notes

• Bibliography

• Index