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...
| Publié dans: | Journal of religion in Europe |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2012
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| Dans: |
Journal of religion in Europe
Année: 2012, Volume: 5, Numéro: 3, Pages: 323-348 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Possession
witchcraft
hysteria
anti-NMDAR encephalitis
early modern England
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | In: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-00503001 |