The Corner of the Curious – Ministry of Labour, Health, Solidarity and Families

Guillemain (Hervé), Directing consciences, healing souls: a comparative history of therapeutic and religious practices (1830-1939), ed. La Découverte, 2006 (collar "the space of history"). When they apply to the suffering of souls, medicine and religion are they opposed? The story of madness could be written by tracing the slow march towards a "laicization of the mind": the priest gradually dispossessed of his healing power by the doctor, the so…