Medicine, Magic, and Religion: The Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1924. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Good. Item #002475
International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method. With a foreward by G. Elliot Smith. viii, 146 p.p., [1]. Original green cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Spine is sunned and bumped at ends. Wear and rubbing to spine ends, joints and corners. Light foxing to text block edges. A few pencil marks throughout, but text is largely clean. Ex-libris bookplate of the Bradfield College Library to pastedown. Ink ownership inscription and pencil annotations to FFEP, offsetting to endpapers. This book represents perhaps the first attempt to interpret with real knowledge and sympathetic insight the thoughts and ideas that find expression in Primitive Medicine. It is therefore a contribution of unique value to the history of medicine. One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. His researches into the borders of psychiatry, medicine and religion made him a prominent member of the British intelligentsia of the time, a friend of H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell.
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