ISBN:
0415209536
,
0415211255
,
0415191327
,
9780415209533
,
9780415211253
,
9780415191326
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 105 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Fitzpatrick lectures 1915-1916
Series Statement:
International library of psychology 035
Series Statement:
Anthropology and psychology 4
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Medicine, Magic and Religion
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Traditional medicine
;
Medicine History
;
Religion
;
Magic
Abstract:
One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration trilogy, Rivers was the clinician who, in the First World War, cared for the poet Siegfried Sassoon and other infantry officers injured on the western front. His researches into the borders of psychiatry, medicine and religion made him a prominent member of the British intelligentsia of the time, a friend of H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell. Part of his appeal lay in an ex
Description / Table of Contents:
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; PREFACE; CHAPTER I MEDICINE, MAGIC, AND RELIGION; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V MIND AND MEDICINE; INDEX;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Originally published: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1924
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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