Faith Healing, Medical Regulation, and Public Religion in Progressive Era Chicago
This essay examines a six-year campaign against the radical faith healer John Alexander Dowie mounted in the 1890s by Chicago doctors, public health officials, and their “respectable” middle-class allies. The incident demonstrates the important role of religion in the process of medical professional...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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Religion and American culture
Year: 2013, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 185-231 |
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B Faith Healing B Secularization B Protestantism B medical professionalization |
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