Medical Theories on Malefic Possession: From Bewitchment to Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis
Following a diagnostic trajectory that begins with early English cases of bewitchment and becomes hysteria, this article suggests that the new diagnostic category of anti-NMDAR encephalitis provides the best promise of finding a medical reason for the resiliency of some of the severe suffering alleg...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2012
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Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2012, Volume: 5, Issue: 3, Pages: 323-348 |
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Possession
witchcraft
hysteria
anti-NMDAR encephalitis
early modern England
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Summary: | Following a diagnostic trajectory that begins with early English cases of bewitchment and becomes hysteria, this article suggests that the new diagnostic category of anti-NMDAR encephalitis provides the best promise of finding a medical reason for the resiliency of some of the severe suffering allegedly caused by malefic possession in early modern England. |
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ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
Contains: | In: Journal of religion in Europe
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-00503001 |