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PUBLIC DOMAINThe Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays
- Original publication
- 1913
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 208
- File size
- 549.8 KB
A surgeon examines the evil eye, death customs and medical superstition, entering the uneasy territory where clinical knowledge meets inherited supernatural fear.
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Roswell Park’s late nineteenth-century essays move between medical history, anthropology, folklore and the supernatural. The title study traces belief in the evil eye and the protective customs formed against it, while other sections investigate death, burial and historical medicine. Written through the assumptions of its period, the book still documents how bodily danger was interpreted before modern explanations prevailed. Its pages reveal a persistent anxiety: that illness and death may arrive not only through nature, but through intention.
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Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical anthropology
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