Fever in Salem A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials

Name: Fever in Salem A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials
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ISBN: 9781566633093

ISBN-10: 1566633095

ISBN-13: 9781566633093

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Laurie Winn Carlson

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This new interpretation of the New England Witch Trials offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on the accused, Laurie Winn Carlson focuses on the afflicted. Systematically comparing the symptoms recorded in colonial diaries and court records to those of the encephalitis epidemic in the early twentieth century, she argues convincingly that the victims suffered from the same disease. A unique blend of historical epidemiology and sociology. --Katrina L. Kelner, Science. Meticulously researched...the author marshalls her arguments with clarity and persuasive force. --New Yorker

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List price: $14.95
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 8/21/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 5.54" wide x 7.38" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



The Witch Craze in Seventeenth-century New England



The Afflicted



The Response



Mental Illness and the Persecution of Witches



The Forgotten Epidemic



What Happened at Salem?



Alternative Outcomes



Could Encephalitis Lethargica Return?


Afterword: Satanic Possession and Christian Beliefs


Chronology


Statistical Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index