Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity
University of California Press, 2011
348 pp., US $26.95 (paperback)
Reviewed by Wilson Will (Rice University)
Christianity and western medicine share a curious relationship in the social science literature. Historians (e.g., Porter 2005, Numbers and Amundsen (eds.) 1997, Risse 1999), have long acknowledged the political and epistemic interactions …