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Occasional Worship and Medical Practice in England and Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents v
List of Illustrations vi
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Secularization of Nature 16
Chapter 2 Vaccinating in the Name of the Lord 40
Chapter 3 John Owen, Plague, and the Meanings of Disaster 56
Chapter 4 Maternal Bodies 74
Chapter 5 Printing England’s Plague Past in New England 100
Chapter 6 Contagious Fasts 117
Chapter 7 Enslaved Bodies and the White Imagination 150
Afterword 175
List of Contributors 187
Index 191

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents v
List of Illustrations vi
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Secularization of Nature 16
Chapter 2 Vaccinating in the Name of the Lord 40
Chapter 3 John Owen, Plague, and the Meanings of Disaster 56
Chapter 4 Maternal Bodies 74
Chapter 5 Printing England’s Plague Past in New England 100
Chapter 6 Contagious Fasts 117
Chapter 7 Enslaved Bodies and the White Imagination 150
Afterword 175
List of Contributors 187
Index 191

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