Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions - Couverture souple

Numbers, Ronald L. L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801857961 ISBN 13 : 9780801857966

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Caring and Curing The essays in this text illuminate the history of health and medicine within the Judaeo-Christian tradition. The 20 articles seek to provide an overview of how religious values have come to affect the practice of medicine and medical care. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Most religious traditions have a rich, if largely forgotten, heritage of involvement in medical issues of life, death, and health. Religious values influence our behavior and attitudes toward sickness, sexuality, and lifestyle, to say nothing of more controversial subjects such as abortion and euthanasia. The essays in this important book illuminate the history of health and medicine within the Judeo-Christian tradition. Bringing together 20 original articles by expert scholars in the fields of the history of religion and the history of medicine, Caring and Curing provides a fascinating and enlightening overview of how religious values have come to affect the practice of medicine and medical care.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801857961
• ISBN 13: 9780801857966
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 624