Beyond narratives of conflict : modern medicine, reproduction and Catholicism in contemporary historiography
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- Kaat Wils, Emmanuel Betta, Isabelle Devos (UGent) , Tine Van Osselaer and Barbra Mann Wall
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- Over the last two decades, the topic of Western biomedicine and religion has gained firm ground among historians. While taking distance from both confessional approaches and interpretations of the past that were implicitly informed by a narrative of conflict between medicine and religion, historians have recently integrated phenomena of separate coexistence and examples of mutual influence and collaboration in their work. In this article, we discuss the state of the art and the future agenda of the historiography of Catholicism and biomedicine in Europe and the United States, with a special interest in questions of reproduction. We thereby take into account the different levels on which this encounter has been studied: from the Vatican's prescriptions to the collective reproductive behavior of Catholic populations, from the negotiations of medical professionals such as Catholic doctors and nurses to individual bodily experiences of the faithful.
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- Religious studies, History, FERTILITY TRANSITION, CHILD-MORTALITY, RELIGION, PHYSICIANS, DIAGNOSIS, HYSTERIA, POLITICS, DOCTORS
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8762040
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- Wils, Kaat, et al. “Beyond Narratives of Conflict : Modern Medicine, Reproduction and Catholicism in Contemporary Historiography.” JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, vol. 46, no. 3, 2022, pp. 415–38, doi:10.1111/1467-9809.12873.
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- Wils, K., Betta, E., Devos, I., Van Osselaer, T., & Wall, B. M. (2022). Beyond narratives of conflict : modern medicine, reproduction and Catholicism in contemporary historiography. JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 46(3), 415–438. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12873
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- Wils, Kaat, Emmanuel Betta, Isabelle Devos, Tine Van Osselaer, and Barbra Mann Wall. 2022. “Beyond Narratives of Conflict : Modern Medicine, Reproduction and Catholicism in Contemporary Historiography.” JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY 46 (3): 415–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12873.
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- Wils, Kaat, Emmanuel Betta, Isabelle Devos, Tine Van Osselaer, and Barbra Mann Wall. 2022. “Beyond Narratives of Conflict : Modern Medicine, Reproduction and Catholicism in Contemporary Historiography.” JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY 46 (3): 415–438. doi:10.1111/1467-9809.12873.
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- 1.Wils K, Betta E, Devos I, Van Osselaer T, Wall BM. Beyond narratives of conflict : modern medicine, reproduction and Catholicism in contemporary historiography. JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY. 2022;46(3):415–38.
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- [1]K. Wils, E. Betta, I. Devos, T. Van Osselaer, and B. M. Wall, “Beyond narratives of conflict : modern medicine, reproduction and Catholicism in contemporary historiography,” JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 415–438, 2022.
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abstract = {{Over the last two decades, the topic of Western biomedicine and religion has gained firm ground among historians. While taking distance from both confessional approaches and interpretations of the past that were implicitly informed by a narrative of conflict between medicine and religion, historians have recently integrated phenomena of separate coexistence and examples of mutual influence and collaboration in their work. In this article, we discuss the state of the art and the future agenda of the historiography of Catholicism and biomedicine in Europe and the United States, with a special interest in questions of reproduction. We thereby take into account the different levels on which this encounter has been studied: from the Vatican's prescriptions to the collective reproductive behavior of Catholic populations, from the negotiations of medical professionals such as Catholic doctors and nurses to individual bodily experiences of the faithful.}},
author = {{Wils, Kaat and Betta, Emmanuel and Devos, Isabelle and Van Osselaer, Tine and Wall, Barbra Mann}},
issn = {{0022-4227}},
journal = {{JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY}},
keywords = {{Religious studies,History,FERTILITY TRANSITION,CHILD-MORTALITY,RELIGION,PHYSICIANS,DIAGNOSIS,HYSTERIA,POLITICS,DOCTORS}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{3}},
pages = {{415--438}},
title = {{Beyond narratives of conflict : modern medicine, reproduction and Catholicism in contemporary historiography}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12873}},
volume = {{46}},
year = {{2022}},
}
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