Medicine, Magic and Religion
Medicine, Magic and Religion One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration trilogy, Rivers was the clinician who, in…
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Medicine, Magic and Religion
One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. 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. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist.
Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell. 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. 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
Medicine, Magic and Religion
Magic, Science And Religion
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