Caring and Curing and The Warfare Between Science and Religion: The Idea That Wouldn't Die

The Warfare Between Science and Religion: The Idea That Wouldn't Die

Caring and Curing

Name: Caring and Curing
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Author: Ronald L. Numbers
ISBN: 9780801857966

Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Tradition

by Ronald L. Numbers

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624 pages
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
15.3 x 22.9 x 3.6 cm

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Most religious traditions have a rich, if largely forgotten, heritage of involvement in medical issues of life, death and health. Religious values influence our behaviour and attitudes toward sickness, sexuality and lifestlye, as well as more controversial issues such as abortion and euthanasia. The essays in this book illuminate the history of health and medicine within the Judeao-Christian tradition, bringing together 20 articles from scholars in the fields of history of religion and history of medicine. The volume is intended to provide an overview of how religious values have come to affect the practice of medicine and medical care.