During the Enlightenment, the religious elements in the treatment and interpretation of diseases to all intents and purposes disappeared. However, recent scholarship suggests that this may well be an overstatement and that religion retained many of its customary relations with m…
"As these studies show, every instance of the introduction of Western medicine into non-Western societies has been contested. Disputes have taken place over the presence, nature and causation of disease; over appropriate therapies; over the legitimacy of native, foreign and fore…
