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Claire Hoertz BadaraccoPublication Details
BookBaylor University Press2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BL65.M4 B33 2007 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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)Subject
- Medicine — Religious aspects
- Alternative medicine — United States — History
- Spiritual healing — United States — History
- Mass media — Religious aspects
- Health in mass media
- Complementary Therapies — history — United States
- History, 19th Century — United States
- History, 20th Century — United States
- History, 21st Century — United States
- Mass Media — history — United States
- Religion and Medicine — United States
- Spiritual Therapies — history — United States
Contents
- "Man’s accidents are God’s purposes" : Harvard and heroic cures
- Launching a scientific religion : Christian science and the book
- Measuring prayers : scientific models of religion
- Belief and wellness : medical pluralism and healing
- The medicated public square : advertising science
ISBN
- 9781932792898
- 1932792899
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