"What is the soul? What is the relationship of the body to the soul? This book focuses on these questions in the context of nineteenth-century Britain, exploring the ways in which medicine and theology co-created modern perceptions of the impact of nutrition on mental health and wellness. It intervenes in the presumed conflict between science and religion in the long nineteenth-century studies by exposing the way medicine and theology worked together to form ideas of health and wellness"-- Provided by publisher.