Investigating the supernatural : from spiritism and occultism to psychical research and metapsychics in France, 1853-1931 / Sofie Lachapelle.

  • Lachapelle, Sofie.
Date:
2011
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Physical description

198 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.

Contents

From turning tables to spiritism -- Occult wisdoms, astral bodies, and human fluids -- Pathologies of the supernatural -- Witnessing and testifying to psychical phenomena -- The rise and fall of metapsychics.

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    History of Medicine
    PY.36.AA8-9
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ISBN

  • 9781421400136
  • 1421400138