Books for Loan | • Spirituality   Swedenborg, Mesmer & The Mind/Body Connection While most people think of alternative or complementary healing as a modern practice, its heritage goes back to the eighteenth century, writes historian John S. Haller Jr. in his new book, Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine. Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish seer whose visions of heaven and hell gave generations of thinkers a new view of the world of spirit. German doctor Franz Anton Mesmer developed magnetic healing techniques that required neither God nor faith in the afterlife. These ideas reached American shores and caught fire with pioneers exploring this new land, the two philosophies mingled and inspired a host of new movements, from utopianism to Spiritualism, mental healing, Christian Science, homeopathy, and New Thought -- the predecessors of the New Age movement. John S. Haller Jr., emeritus professor of history and medical humanities at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is the author of a dozen books on subjects including race, sexuality, and the history of medicine. He is the former editor of Caduceus: A Humanities Journal for Medicine and the Health Sciences and, until his retirement at the end of 2008, served for eighteen years as vice president for academic affairs for the Southern Illinois University system. SKU: 978-0-87785-330-5 Price: $19.95 Send this page to a friend! Quantity:

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