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A Fever in Salem
A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE - The Witch Craze in Seventeenth-century New England
- CHAPTER Two - The Afflicted
- CHAPTER THREE - The Response
- CHAPTER FOUR - Mental Illness and the Persecution of Witches
- CHAPTER FIVE - The Forgotten Epidemic
- CHAPTER SIX - What Happened at Salem?
- CHAPTER SEVEN - Alternative Outcomes
- CHAPTER EIGHT - Could Encephalitis, Lethargica Return?
- AFTERWORD - Satanic Possession and Christian Beliefs
- CHRONOLOGY
- STATISTICAL APPENDIX
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
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