• ISBN13: 9781041060796
• Binding: Paperback
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• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics
• Publication Date: January 1, 2025
• Pages: 144
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
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• Item Weight: 190 grams
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W.H.R. Rivers, a renowned British doctor, psychiatrist, and ethnologist, was an influential figure in early 20th-century intellectual circles. Immortalized in Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy, Rivers treated poet Siegfried Sassoon and other soldiers during World War I. His groundbreaking research explored the intersection of psychiatry, medicine, and religion, challenging Western assumptions about indigenous practices. In Medicine, Magic and Religion, Rivers proposed that indigenous practices were rational when understood within their religious context, a revolutionary idea for its time. Known for his exceptional intellect and empathy, Rivers was a key figure among contemporaries like H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Bertrand Russell, making significant contributions to both medicine and social science.