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Medicine and religion : a historical introduction / Gary B. Ferngren. [electronic resource]

By: Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421412177 (PDF ebook) :
Other title:
  • Medicine & religion [Cover title]
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 201.6'61 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.M4
Online resources: Summary: Medicine and Religion examines the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian Gary B. Ferngren describes how the polytheistic religions of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and the monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have complemented medicine in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Ferngren paints a broad and detailed portrait of how humans throughout the ages have drawn on specific values of diverse religious traditions in caring for the body. Religious perspectives have informed both the treatment of disease and the provision of health care.
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E-book Bolton NHS Foundation Trust - Education Centre Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust - Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book East Cheshire NHS Trust - Library & Knowledge Service Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - The Curve Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - Gosall Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Chorley Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Preston Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book LKS for NHS Ambulance Services in England (LKS ASE) Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Southport and Ormskirk) - Library & Knowledge Service Diversity Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (St Helens and Knowsley) - Library & Knowledge Service Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Knowledge & Library Service Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - Knowledge Service Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - Knowledge & Library Services Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Library & Knowledge Service Link to resource Not for loan

Also issued in print: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Medicine and Religion examines the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian Gary B. Ferngren describes how the polytheistic religions of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and the monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have complemented medicine in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Ferngren paints a broad and detailed portrait of how humans throughout the ages have drawn on specific values of diverse religious traditions in caring for the body. Religious perspectives have informed both the treatment of disease and the provision of health care.

Description based on print version record.

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