Medicine, Religion, and the Body (International Studies in Religion and Society, 11)
ISBN-13:
9789004179707
ISBN-10:
9004179704
Author:
(-). Author, Kevin White, Elizabeth Burns Coleman
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
Brill Academic Pub
Format:
Hardcover
297 pages
Category:
Religious
,
History
,
Religious Studies
,
World History
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ISBN-13:
9789004179707
ISBN-10:
9004179704
Author:
(-). Author, Kevin White, Elizabeth Burns Coleman
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
Brill Academic Pub
Format:
Hardcover
297 pages
Category:
Religious
,
History
,
Religious Studies
,
World History
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Medicine, Religion, and the Body (International Studies in Religion and Society, 11) (ISBN-13: 9789004179707 and ISBN-10: 9004179704), written by authors
(-). Author, Kevin White, Elizabeth Burns Coleman, was published by Brill Academic Pub in 2009.
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This book explores the ways in which the body is sacred in Western medicine, as well as how this idea is played out in questions of life and death, of the autopsy and of the meanings attributed to illnesses and disease. Ritual and religious modifications to, and limitations on what may be done to the body raise cross cultural issues of great complexity - philosophically and theologically, as well as sociologically - within medicine and for health care practitioners, but also, as a matter of primary concern for the patient. The book explores the ways in which medicine organises the moral and the immoral, the sacred and the profane; how it mediates cultural concepts of the sacred - of the body, of blood and of life and death.
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