Timothy D. Walker: Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition. The Repression of Magical Healing in Portugal during the Enlightenment

Looking at the title of this work, the reader would be forgiven if he or she thought that this was another study of the Inquisition in Portugal. It is not. This is a highly original work that blends sources from the Inquisition and medical history (as well as many others, particularly intellectual history) to examine the stark contradiction of professionally-trained medical doctors during the Portuguese Enlightenment using the repressive apparatus of the Inquisition to eliminate their rustic and (largely) unlettered competition: folk-healers.