De Geneeskunde En De R.k. Kerk (1830-1940): Een Moeilijke Verhouding?: Medicine and the Catholic Church, 1830-1940: a difficult relationship?
Provides an overview of the main sources of tension between medicine and religion - between Church authority and the medical profession - from 1830 to 1940. The 19th century was marked by a latent distrust of medicine by the Catholic Church. This finds expression during the introduction of the small...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
1995
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Trajecta
Year: 1995, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-21 |
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Medicine
B Conflict (Psychology) B Catholic Church |
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| Summary: | Provides an overview of the main sources of tension between medicine and religion - between Church authority and the medical profession - from 1830 to 1940. The 19th century was marked by a latent distrust of medicine by the Catholic Church. This finds expression during the introduction of the smallpox vaccination (about 1800) and anesthetics (about 1848), in conflicts centering on the illegal practice of medicine by clergymen, and during the debate about cremation and the miraculous cures of Lourdes. The Church realized that the development of medicine (and public health) was one of the fields in which militant anticlericalism could challenge dogmatic Catholicism. The episcopacy, stirred to action by the demand from freethinkers for the secularization of hospitals and shocked by the "liberalization of sexual morals," called on the Catholic physician to cooperate in the re-Christianization of society. After World War I the Saint Luke guilds and intense cooperation between physicians and moral theologians laid the foundations for today's Catholic medical ethics. |
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| ISSN: | 0778-8304 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Trajecta
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