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Medicine, Theology and Wellness in Britain from the Enlightenment to Modernity

"What is the soul? What is the relationship of the body to the soul? This book focuses on these questions in the context of nineteenth-century Britain, exploring the ways in which medicine and theology co-created modern perceptions of the impact of nutrition on mental health and wellness. It intervenes in the presumed conflict between science and religion in the long nineteenth-century studies by exposing the way medicine and theology worked together to form ideas of health and wellness"-- Provided by publisher.