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Información de la obraMedical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World por Jacalyn Duffin
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"Modern culture tends to separate medicine and miracles, but their histories are closely intertwined. The Roman Catholic Church recognizes saints through canonization based on evidence that they worked miracles, as signs of their proximity to God. Physician and historian Jacalyn Duffin has examined Vatican sources on 1400 miracles from six continents and spanning four centuries. Overwhelmingly the miracles cited in canonizations between 1588 and 1999 are healings, and the majority entail medical care and physician testimony. These remarkable records contain intimate stories of illness, prayer, and treatment, as told by people who rarely leave traces: peasants and illiterates, men and women, old and young. A woman's breast tumor melts away; a man's wounds knit; a lame girl suddenly walks; a dead baby revives. Suspicious of wishful thinking or naive enthusiasm, skeptical clergy shaped the inquiries to identify recoveries that remain unexplained by the best doctors of the era. The tales of healing are supplemented with substantial testimony from these physicians. Some elements of the miracles change through time. Duffin shows that doctors increase in number; new technologies are embraced quickly; diagnoses shift with altered capabilities. But other aspects of the miracles are stable. The narratives follow a dramatic structure, shaped by the formal questions asked of each witness and by perennial reactions to illness and healing. In this history, medicine and religion emerge as parallel endeavors aimed at deriving meaningful signs from particular instances of human distress -- signs to explain, alleviate, and console in confrontation with suffering and mortality."--Jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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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. ( )