Medicine, Religion, and the Body: Medicine, Religion, and the Body

This book develops an interdiscplinary as well as cross cultural and historical analyses of the relationship between medicine, religion, and the body.

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Main Author: Coleman, Elizabeth Burns (Author)
Contributors: White, Kevin (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden BRILL 2009
In:Year: 2009
Edition:1st ed.
Series/Journal:International Studies in Religion and Society Ser. v.11
Further subjects:B Medicine ; Religious aspects
B Electronic books
B Human body ; Religious aspects
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9789004179707

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520 |a Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- The Meanings of Health and Illness: Medicine, Religion and the Body (Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White) -- Section I the Social and Spiritual Body -- Chapter One Contested Sites: Aboriginal Health and Healers Engaging Western Medicine (Brian F. McCoy) -- Chapter Two The 'Religionated' Body: Fatwas and Body Parts (Roxanne D. Marcotte) -- Chapter Three The Body and the World in Buddhism (Peter G. Friedlander) -- Chapter Four Subtle Anatomy: The Bio-metaphysics of Alternative Therapies (Jay Johnston) -- Chapter Five Piety, Prolongevity and Perpetuity: The Consequences of Living Forever (Bryan S. Turner) -- Section II Negotiating Medicine, Healing and Religious Belief -- Chapter Six 'Pity and also Horror': Public Mourning, Breast Cancer, and a French Queen (Thérèse Taylor) -- Chapter Seven Spiritual Boundary Work: How Spiritual Healers and Medical Clairvoyants Negotiate the Sacred (Ruth Barcan) -- Chapter Eight Moments of Grace and Blessing: Rites and Rituals in the Process of Healing (Roy J. O'Neill) -- Chapter Nine Limitations in Death: Negotiating Sentiment and Science in the Case of the Hospital Autopsy (Philomena Horsley) -- Chapter Ten The Care of the Body (Jeremy Shearmur) -- Section III Virtue, Health and the State -- Chapter Eleven Deadly Sin: Gluttony, Obesity and Health Policy (William James Hoverd) -- Chapter Twelve Painful Paradoxes: Consumption, Sacrifice and Man-Building in the Age of Nationalism (Christopher E. Forth) -- Chapter Thirteen Freezing Sacred Man: Myth, Philosophy, and Medicine's Practice of Curing Undesirables (Peter Arnds) -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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