Ellen M. Umansky. From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii, 245 pp.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the pressures of modern civilization had become so exigent that alienists were decrying the prevalence of “neurasthenia,” and William James would soon diagnose the “sick souls” whose anguished quest for relief from existential despair marked not only an enduring...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2006
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AJS review
Year: 2006, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 216-218 |
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