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Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages

Author : Peter Biller
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1903153077
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages written by Peter Biller and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine and religion were intertwined in the middle ages; here are studies of specific instances. The sheer extent of crossover - medics as religious men, religious men as medics, medical language at the service of preaching and moral-theological language deployed in medical writings - is the driving force behind these studies. The book reflects the extraordinary advances which 'pure' history of medicine has made in the last twenty years: there is medicine at the levels of midwife and village practitioner, the sweep of the learned Greek and Latin tradition of over a millennium; there is control of midwifery by the priest, therapy through liturgy, medicine as an expression of religious life for heretics, medicine invading theologians' discussion of earthly paradise; and so on. Professor PETER BILLER is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York; Dr JOSEPH ZIEGLER teaches in the Department of History at the University of Haifa.Contributors JOSEPH ZIEGLER, PEREGRINE HORDEN, KATHRYNTAGLIA, JESSALYN BIRD, PETER BILLER, DANIELLE JACQUART, MICHAEL McVAUGH, MAAIKE VAN DER LUGT, WILLIAM COURTENAY, VIVIAN NUTTON.

Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine

Author : Michael J. Balboni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190272430
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine written by Michael J. Balboni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This] Multi-disciplinary approach provides a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between spirituality, religion, and medicine" -- Provided by the publisher.

Medicine, Religion, and the Body

Author : Elizabeth Burns Coleman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004179704
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Medicine, Religion, and the Body written by Elizabeth Burns Coleman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which the body is sacred in Western medicine, as well as how this idea is played out in questions of life and death, of the autopsy and of the meanings attributed to illnesses and disease. Ritual and religious modifications to, and limitations on what may be done to the body raise cross cultural issues of great complexity philosophically and theologically, as well as sociologically - within medicine and for health care practitioners, but also, as a matter of primary concern for the patient. The book explores the ways in which medicine organises the moral and the immoral, the sacred and the profane; how it mediates cultural concepts of the sacred of the body, of blood and of life and death.

Medicine and Religion

Author : Gary B. Ferngren
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421412160
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Religion written by Gary B. Ferngren and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the interplay of medicine and religion in Western societies. Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian Gary B. Ferngren describes how the polytheistic religions of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and the monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have complemented medicine in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Ferngren paints a broad and detailed portrait of how humans throughout the ages have drawn on specific values of diverse religious traditions in caring for the body. Religious perspectives have informed both the treatment of disease and the provision of health care. And, while tensions have sometimes existed, relations between medicine and religion have often been cooperative and mutually beneficial. Religious beliefs provided a framework for explaining disease and suffering that was larger than medicine alone could offer. These beliefs furnished a theological basis for a compassionate care of the sick that led to the creation of the hospital and a long tradition of charitable medicine. Praise for Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity, by Gary B. Ferngren "This fine work looks forward as well as backward; it invites fuller reflection of the many senses in which medicine and religion intersect and merits wide readership."—JAMA "An important book, for students of Christian theology who understand health and healing to be topics of theological interest, and for health care practitioners who seek a historical perspective on the development of the ethos of their vocation."—Journal of Religion and Health

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health

Author : Dorothea Lüddeckens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000464326
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health written by Dorothea Lüddeckens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary, and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. While many of these debates revolve around the biomedical legitimacy of religious modes of healing, the market for them continues to grow. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into five parts: Healing practices with religious roots and frames Religious actors in and around the medical field Organizing infrastructures of religion and medicine: pluralism and competition Boundary-making between religion and medicine Religion and epidemics Within these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including health and healing, religiosity, spirituality, biomedicine, medicalization, complementary medicine, medical therapy, efficacy, agency, and the nexus of body, mind, and spirit. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, anthropology, and medicine.

Medicine, Religion, and Health

Author : Harold G Koenig
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599471418
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Medicine, Religion, and Health written by Harold G Koenig and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet will be the first title published in the new Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this, the series' maiden volume, Dr. Harold G. Koenig, provides an overview of the relationship between health care and religion that manages to be comprehensive yet concise, factual yet inspirational, and technical yet easily accessible to nonspecialists and general readers. Focusing on the scientific basis for integrating spirituality into medicine, Koenig carefully summarizes major trends, controversies, and the latest research from various disciplines and provides plausible and compelling theoretical explanations for what has thus far emerged in this relatively young field of study. Medicine, Religion, and Health begins by defining the principal terms and then moves on to a brief history of religion's role in medicine before delving into the current state of research. Koenig devotes several chapters to exploring the outcomes of specific studies in fields such as mental health, cardiovascular disease, and mortality. The book concludes with a review of the clinical applications derived from the research. Koenig also supplies several detailed appendices to aid readers of all levels looking for further information. Medicine, Religion, and Health will shed new light on critical contemporary issues. They will whet readers' appetites for more information on this fascinating, complex, and controversial area of research, clinical activity, and widespread discussion. It will find a welcome home on the bookshelves of students, researchers, clinicians, and other health professionals in a variety of disciplines.

Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe

Author : Andrew Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351918702
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe written by Andrew Cunningham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. With respect to medicine this means that the religious elements in the treatment and interpretation of diseases to all intents and purposes disappeared. However, there are growing indications in recent scholarship that this may well be an overstatement. Indeed it appears that religion retained many of its customary relations with medicine. This volume explores how far, and the ways in which, this was still the case. It looks at this multi-faceted relationship with respect to among others: medical care and death in hospitals, religious vocation and nursing, chemical medicine and religion, the clergy and medicine, the continued significance of popular medicine, faith healing, dissection and religion, and religious dissent and medical innovation. Within these significant areas the volume provides a European perspective which will make it possible to draw comparisons and determine differences.

Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion

Author : Gary B. Ferngren
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421422905
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion written by Gary B. Ferngren and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Near East -- Greece -- Rome -- Early Christianity -- The Middle Ages -- Islam / by M.A. Mujeeb Khan -- The early modern period -- The nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries

Religion in Medicine

Author : John Dawson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465368310
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Religion in Medicine written by John Dawson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this treatise is: 1) to draw attention to the presence of situations arising within medical practice in which religious beliefs play an important role. 2) to emphasize the fact that most students and many doctors are given insufficient training in such matters, which are of considerable import to a fair percentage of the public. 3) to provide a few examples of what is meant by a religio-medical situation, and a bibliography for further exploration by the initiate in such matters. The stimulus to think along these lines stemmed from the examples set me by my erstwhile 'chiefs', Sir James Patterson-Ross, Professor Sir E. F. Scowen and Sir Stanley Davidson. Further encouragement came while I was in Edinburgh from the Reverend Dr. H.C. Whitley of St. Giles and his brother counterparts Msgr. Quill and the Reverend A. Brysh-White. In Australia, Bishop E.H. Burgmann of Canberra gave me the benefit of his legendary experience and passed me on to Father Michael Scott of Newman College, Professor D. McCaughey of Ormond College and Mr. Ben Gurewicz in Melbourne. The Reverend Granger Westberg of the Lutheran ministry in the United States infused his enthusiasm into the venture and this, with an intellectual commentary from Professor B. Hamnett of the State University of New York, along with the constructive critique volunteered by members of the local Baha'i community, tidied up many loose ends. In respect to the actual page-by-page construction I must mention my wife and Professor G. Bolton of the University of Western Australia who turned my thoughts into reality. My gratitude to these and many other people of distinction and industry can never be satisfactorily expressed. I hope they will accept my efforts to interpret or to pass on their humane counsel as part payment.

Modern Medicine - The New World Religion

Author : Olivier Clerc
Publisher : Personhood Press
ISBN 13 : 9781932181142
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Modern Medicine - The New World Religion written by Olivier Clerc and published by Personhood Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put forth in this book is the assertion that medicine is actually ruled by a set of beliefs, myths, and rites of Christianity it has never freed itself from. Supporting this claim are discussions about the ways in which physicians have taken the place of priests, vaccination plays the same role as baptism, the search for health has replaced the quest for salvation, and the hope of physical immortality (cloning and genetic engineering) takes priority over eternal life. This book argues that the medical establishment has become the government's ally, as the Catholic Church has in the past. "Charlatans" are prosecuted today, as "heretics" were in the past, and dogmatism rules out promising medical theories. It contends that only by becoming aware of how religious beliefs and primitive fears unconsciously influence one's relationships with medicine can people start walking on the path of freedom, personal responsibility, and individual sovereignty.

Religion in Medicine Volume Ii

Author : John B. Dawson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465368361
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Religion in Medicine Volume Ii written by John B. Dawson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this treatise is: 1) to draw attention to the presence of situations arising within medical practice in which religious beliefs play an important role. 2) to emphasize the fact that most students and many doctors are given insufficient training in such matters, which are of considerable import to a fair percentage of the public. 3) to provide a few examples of what is meant by a religio-medical situation, and a bibliography for further exploration by the initiate in such matters.

Health Medicine and Faith Traditions

Author : Martin E. Marty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608170114
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Health Medicine and Faith Traditions written by Martin E. Marty and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religio Medici

Author : Ole Peter Grell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religio Medici written by Ole Peter Grell and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in medicine that took place in the 1600s were heavily influenced by the religious and politico-religious upheavals in English society. This work addresses the contending approaches to medicine at a time of dynastic flux, civil war and plague.

Medicine and Religion

Author : Donald W. Shriver
Publisher : Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Religion written by Donald W. Shriver and published by Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia

Author : Michael Stanley-Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526160010
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia written by Michael Stanley-Baker and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents studies of the of the mobilisation of practices for health and spiritual well-being in various regions and times across Asia. The chapters use a common structure to situate these practices within their regions and times, demonstrating how they circulated across religious, medical and scientific domains. Introducing methodological tools and positions, the chapters make a critical intervention into the histories of Science, Medicine and Religion in Asia.

Religion in Medicine

Author : John Dawson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781465368348
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Religion in Medicine written by John Dawson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this treatise is: 1) to draw attention to the presence of situations arising within medical practice in which religious beliefs play an important role. 2) to emphasize the fact that most students and many doctors are given insufficient training in such matters, which are of considerable import to a fair percentage of the public. 3) to provide a few examples of what is meant by a religio-medical situation, and a bibliography for further exploration by the initiate in such matters.

Handbook of Religion and Health

Author : Harold George Koenig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195118667
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Religion and Health written by Harold George Koenig and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What effect does religion have on physical and mental health? In answering this question, this book reviews and discusses research on the relationship between religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes, including depression and anxiety; heart disease, stroke, and cancer; and health related behaviors such as smoking and substance abuse. The authors examine the positive and negative effects of religion on health throughout the life span, from childhood to old age. Based on their findings, they build theoretical models illustrating the behavioral, psychological, social, and physiological pathways through which religion may influence health. The authors also review research on the impact of religious affiliation, belief, and practice on the use of health services and compliance with medical treatment. In conclusion, they discuss the clinical relevance of their findings and make recommendations for future research priorities. Offering the first comprehensive examination of its topic, this volume is an indispensable resource for research scientists, health professionals, public policy makers, and anyone interested in the relationship between religion and health.