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Patient*innen und Passionen. Eine Schmerzgeschichte des Katholizismus in Österreich im 19. Jahrhundert – Ein Kooperationsprojekt an den Universitäten Innsbruck und Antwerpen (2018–2022)

Name: Patient*innen und Passionen. Eine Schmerzgeschichte des Katholizismus in Österreich im 19. Jahrhundert – Ein Kooperationsprojekt an den Universitäten Innsbruck und Antwerpen (2018–2022)
Keywords: Religious studies, Sociology, History of Pain, catholicism, patients, passions, stigmatics, 19th century, Austria,MedicalHumanities

Maria Heidegger; Tine Van Osselaer;

Open Access

Published: 09 Jul 2020 Journal: VIRUS - Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin, volume 1, pages 351-359 (issn: 1605-7066,

Publisher: Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Summary

Abstract

The still rather young history of pain is more and more critical about the finalist historiography postulating an increasing secularization and medicalisation of pain in the modern era. In the nineteenth century, so the narrative goes, pain lost its status as a ‘gift’ of God, turned into something that needed to be avoided and became more and more controlled thanks to medical progress as e.g. the invention of anaesthetics. Against such a backdrop, numerous religious practices of nineteenth-century Catholicism appear like anachronistic remnants of medieval, pain-idealising traditions and cults like Christ´s passion, at odds with secular and medical perspectives. ...

Persistent Identifiers

doi: 10.1553/virus18s351

handle: 10067/1655160151162165141

Subjects

free text keywords: Religious studies, Sociology, History of Pain, catholicism, patients, passions, stigmatics, 19th century, Austria,MedicalHumanities

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