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Medicine, Magic and Religion (Hardcover)
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Medicine, Magic and Religion (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Classics
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One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers
was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading
ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning
Regeneration trilogy, Rivers was the clinician who, in the First
World War, cared for the poet Siegfried Sassoon and other infantry
officers injured on the western front. His researches into the
borders of psychiatry, medicine and religion made him a prominent
member of the British intelligentsia of the time, a friend of H.G.
Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell. Part of his appeal
lay in an extraordinary intellect, mixed with a very real interest
in his fellow man. Medicine, Magic and Religion is a prime example
of this. A social institution, it is one of Rivers' finest works.
In it, Rivers introduced the then revolutionary idea that
indigenous practices are indeed rational, when viewed in terms of
religious beliefs.
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