All human societies have medical beliefs that provide explanations for birth, death, and disease. Throughout history, illness has been attributed to witchcraft, demons, astral influence, or the will of the gods. These ideas still retain some power, with faith healing and shrines still used in some places, although the rise of scientific medicine over the past millennium has altered or replaced mysticism in most cases.
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- Bulletin of the History of Medicine ,
- Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ,
- Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie ,
- Journal of Medical Biography ,
- Histoire des sciences médicales ,
- Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
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- Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941 ,
- Rosengarten ,
- Witches, Midwives, and Nurses ,
- A Brief History of Medicine ,
- Paracelsus ,
- Dr Simon Forman ,
- Learning to heal ,
- The Way and the Word ,
- The English hospital 1070-1570 ,
- The Study Of Medicine
