Bøker av Elizabeth A. Williams

Elizabeth Williams draws on the perspectives of womanist theology and anthropology to examine how Black, American women use faith to achieve well-being after a breast cancer diagnosis. Williams portrays how these women have constructed a cultural theology of breast cancer that draws on their experiences and worldviews.

A study of medical vitalism in Montpellier during the Enlightenment. The vitalists offered a holistic understanding of the physical-moral relation in place of mind-body dualism, and felt that illness had to be remedied on an individual level depending on the patient's own "natural" limitations.