Jacalyn Duffin
Auteur de History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
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Jacalyn Duffin is a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Department of History, and the Department of Philosophy, and holds the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at Queen's University.
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- Date de naissance
- 1950-06-09
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Canada
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- 36
Behind every canonized saint in the Catholic Church (excepting martyrs) there are at least two medical miracles attributed to the prayers of the saint. This book is about the exhaustive investigations conducted by Church officials into medical miracles for canonizations of the last four hundred years.
I had two strong experiences while reading the book. (1) Wonder - My word! Miracles appear page after page with brief and end noted explanations. I had the eerie feeling that miraculous healings from the intercessions of saints were much more common than I previously thought. (2) Frustration - each miracle briefly mentioned beggars further explanation. I want to know more of the story for each miracle. However, this book is content to look over the whole breadth of 400 years of medical miracles rather than telling the personal stories of those affected.
This book is a wondrous, thought provoking read into the rather unknown scholarly world of the medical miracles associated with the canonization of Catholic saints.… (plus d'informations)