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Title The apothecary's chest : magic, art and medication / edited by Konstantina Georganta, Fabienne Collignon and Anne-Marie Millim
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 165 pages) : illustrations
Contents The phrenological dreamer : the popular medical and fictional writing of Robert Macnish (1802-1837) / Megan Coyer -- Animal magic : conjury and power in colonial taxidermy / John Miller -- A wizard/witch's duel : gender power struggles and the occult in surrealism / Rachel Grew -- Old spells, magic herbs and frightening creatures : the curandera in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless me, Ultima / João de Mancelos -- The rising gorge : poison, Hamlet and sin / Christa Mahalik -- Prescription narratives : rereading Joseph Cornell's Pharmacy series as a "modernist antidote" / Catriona McAra -- Theatres of memory and restraint : Matthew Barney among the Neo-Platonists / Corin Depper -- The popular use of "precious" stones medicinally in early modern Scotland / Tom Blaen -- Theodora, "the pills" and the saints : female practices toward drug prescrtiption, rearrangements of male therapeutic power / Athena Peglidou -- "I will put none of these diseases upon thee ( -- ) for I am the Lord that healeth thee" : Christ as pharmacist and healer in iconography and literature of late medieval and early modern times / Jacek Kowzan -- Magic, mysticism and medicine : the medical career of John Webster (1611-1682) / Lindsey Fitzharris -- "They go by their dreams" : myth-making and rationality in the initiation of the shaman Quesalid / Harry Whitehead -- From mere bellies to the bad shaman : roles of the contemporary poet / Bill Herbert
Summary ÂThe Apothecaryâs Chest: Magic, Art and Medicationâ was a one-day symposium held at the University of Glasgow on November 24, 2007. The symposium called for a discussion on the evolution of the notions of mysticism, knowledge and superstition in the
Analysis Apothecary's chest
Medication
Magic
Art
Notes Proceedings of a symposium of the same name held at the University of Glasgow on Nov. 24, 2007. Cf. acknowledgments
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Pharmacology -- History -- Congresses
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Congresses
Medicine and art -- Congresses
Literature and medicine -- Congresses
Healing -- Congresses
Medicine in literature.
Pharmacology -- history
Magic -- history
Medicine in Literature
Human figures depicted in art.
Religious subjects depicted in art.
Literature & literary studies.
MEDICAL -- Drug Guides.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Pharmacology.
MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
MEDICAL -- Pharmacy.
Medicine in literature
Healing
Literature and medicine
Medicine and art
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Pharmacology
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Georganta, Konstantina
Collignon, Fabienne
Millim, Anne-Marie
ISBN 9781443807333
1443807338
1282191098
9781282191099