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Letters on Mesmerism
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Letters on Mesmerism
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Harriet Martineau
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Series | Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:112 | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9781108027403
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Classifications | Dewey:154.7 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
20 January 2011 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was a British writer who was one of the first social theorists to examine all aspects of a society, including class, religion, national character and the status of women. Seriously ill in the early 1840s, she turned to alternative remedies, and underwent a course of mesmerism, to which she attributed her remarkable restoration to health. She published her account of the treatment in a series of letters in the Athenaeum in December 1844, and subsequently in book form, and her cure caused a sensation, adding greatly to public interest in mesmerism. To her fury, her doctor (and brother-in-law) T. M. Greenhow defended his own treatment of her in a remarkably detailed account of her illness, which she regarded as a serious breach of patient confidentiality, and his pamphlet is appended to Martineau's work in this reissue.
Author Biography
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