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Prescribing Faith : Medicine, Media, And Religion In American Culture

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Claire Hoertz BadaraccoPublication Details
BookBaylor University Press2007Description
The power of both medicine and prayer to heal are often media headlines. Prescribing Faith traces the confluence of medicine, media and religion from mid-nineteenth century American culture to the present day. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BL65.M4 B33 2007 AVAILABLE
Leprosy In Medieval England

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Carole RawcliffePublication Details
BookBoydell Press2006Description
Set firmly in the medical, religious and cultural milieu of the European Middle Ages, this book is the first serious academic study of a disease surrounded by misconceptions and prejudices. that a wide range of treatment was available, that medieval leper hospitals were no more austere than the monasteries on which they were modelled; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) RC154.3 .R39 2006 AVAILABLE
Navaho Symbols Of Healing : A Jungian Exploration Of Ritual, Image, And Medicine

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Donald SandnerPublication Details
BookHealing Arts Press1991Links
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Through his interactions with Navaho medicine men, Sandner conveys the rigors of their training and the complexities of their purification and evocation rites, including the use of sand paintings as healing mandalas and the esoteric meaning of the pollen path. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E99.N3 S22 1991 AVAILABLE
Spirit, Science, And Health : How The Spiritual Mind Fuels Physical Wellness

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edited by Thomas G. Plante and Carl E. Thoresen ; foreword by Albert BanduraPublication Details
BookPraeger2007Links
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From meditation to reciting mantras or praying, spirituality is more and more often being recognized for its beneficial effects on health. Contributors, all members of the Spirituality and Health Institute at Santa Clara University, aim to use the scientific understanding of the spirituality/health connection to promote better health for the general public. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BT732.5 .S665 2007 AVAILABLE
Spirituality And Religiousness And Alcohol/other Drug Problems : Treatment And Recovery Perspectives

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Brent B. Benda, Thomas F. McGovern, editorsPublication Details
BookHaworth Press2006Links
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An in-depth look at the relevance of religious and spiritual issues to alcohol and drug use and abuse throughout the lifespan Spiritual issues and forgiveness are oft-neglected topics in treatment programs for substance abusers. This informative book also examines: the existing literature on the intersection of spirituality/religiousness and alcohol/drug issues addiction recovery across the lifespan connections among stress, quality of life, social support, spirituality and religiosity, and recovery how social supports, spirituality, religiousness, life meaning, and affiliation with 12-step fellowships affect the quality of life for people in recovery evidence-based forgiveness treatment alcohol abusers? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HV5275 .S665 2006 AVAILABLE
Daoist Body Cultivation : Traditional Models And Contemporary Practices
Handbook Of Bioethics And Religion

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edited by David E. GuinnPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2006Links
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The authors address specific and highly contested issues as assisted suicide, stem cell research, cloning, reproductive health, and alternative medicine as well as more general questions such as who legitimately speaks for religion in public bioethics, what religion can add to our understanding of justice, and the value of faith-based contributions to healthcare. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) R725.55 .H36 2006 AVAILABLE
Blind Faith : The Unholy Alliance Of Religion And Medicine

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Richard P. SloanPublication Details
Book1st edSt. Martin’s Press2006Links
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Richard Sloan believes there is no proven curative power to prayer and that the use of it as a medical treatment underminds effective patient care.In Blind Faith, Sloan exposes the questionable research practicies and unfounded claims made by ethical scientists who manipulate scientific data and research results to support their (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BL65.M4 S56 2006 AVAILABLE
Facing Death : Where Culture, Religion, And Medicine Meet

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edited by Howard M. Spiro, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer WandelPublication Details
BookYale University Press1996Description
This profound and eloquent book brings together health professionals and distinguished authorities in the humanities to reflect on medical, cultural, and religious responses to death. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) R726.8 .F33 1996 AVAILABLE
Beyond The Dream : Awakening To Reality

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Thomas HoraPublication Details
Book2nd edCrossroad Pub. Co1996Description
Beyond the Dream contains original insights on life, health, healing and wholeness - insights that can help anyone awaken spiritually - to find light beyond the dream of life as personal selfhood. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) RC455.4.R4 H67 1996 AVAILABLE
Healing Words : The Power Of Prayer And The Practice Of Medicine

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Larry DosseyPublication Details
Book1st edHarperSanFrancisco1993Description
In this groundbreaking classic linking prayer and health, physician Larry Dossey shares the latest evidence connecting prayer, healing, and medicine. Provocative, engaging, and powerfully instructive, Healing Words restores the spiritual art of healing to the science of medicine. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BL65.M4 D67 1993 AVAILABLE
Secret Doctors : Ethnomedicine Of African Americans

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Wonda L. FontenotPublication Details
BookBergin & Garvey1994Description
Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American indigenous traditions, and the French migration and Black Haitian freed and enslaved population influx during the 1700s and 1800s. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GR110.L5 F47 1994 AVAILABLE
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