Published January, 2023
By Maohui Deng
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Published November, 2022
By Sara Ebrahimi
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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An innovative history of medical mission from the perspective of the history of emotions

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Published November, 2022
By Efraim Lev
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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This book collects and analyses the available biographical data on 600 Jewish medical practitioners in the 9-16th century Muslim world. Both the biographies and the accompanying discussion shed light on both the medicine of the period and practitioners' professional, daily and personal lives; Jewish communities; and inter-religious affairs.

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Published November, 2022
By Marcus Milwright
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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The balsam of Matarea was a famous panacea among physicians in the Middle East and Europe during the antique and medieval periods. Using written sources, visual data and archaeological material, Milwright reconstructs the fascinating cultural history of the balsam tree: from Jericho and En-Gedi to Egypt, and from ancient times to the 17th century.

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Published November, 2022
By Megan Nutzman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Studies the people, places and objects credited with ritual cures and the elite rhetoric critical of these cures

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Published November, 2022
By Sufyan Dogra
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Presents a pioneering collection studying religion as a wider determinant of health in Britain

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Published March, 2022
By Gavin Miller
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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This book draws upon a wealth of archival research to uncover the complex interaction between religion and psychotherapy in twentieth-century Scotland. It explores the practical and intellectual alliance created between the Scottish churches and Scottish psychotherapy and figures such as the R.D. Laing and W.R.D. Fairbairn.

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Published February, 2021
By Christopher Hart
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts belonging to different literary and political genres.

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Published June, 2019
By Andelka Phillips
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Published June, 2019
By Christopher Hart
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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