Medicine and Religious Dissent in Upper Canada
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article37662
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society
- Date
- 1996 October
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1996 October
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 2
- Page
- 173
- Notes
- "Readers of the 'Journal' will be interested in the article by Dr. Jennifer J. Connor of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto entitled 'Thomsonian Medical Books and the Culture of Dissent in Upper Canada' in the 'Canadian Bulletin of Medical History' volume 12: 1995, pp. 289-311. An abstract of Dr. Connor's article states: Adherents to American lay healer Samuel Thomson's system of medicine have been viewed in Canada primarily as antagonists of traditional medicine. Their publishing activities, however, real a wide reform impulse. As this discussion illustrates by considering publishers, printers, editors, and compilers of Thomsonian books in Upper Canada, most had links -- real and temperamental -- to Reform politics and dissenting Protestant beliefs, especially Methodism, Their publication may be viewed as vehicles for social change in a British colony having a strong Tory alliance between church and state". [Text of entire note.]
- Subjects
- Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843
- Alternative medicine - Canada
- Spiritual healing - Canada
- Connor, Jennifer J. (Jennifer Jean), 1953-
- Location
- General Synod Archives