Medicine, Religion, and the Body

Medicine, Religion, and the Body
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9789004179707
ISBN-13 : 9004179704
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Book Synopsis Medicine, Religion, and the Body by : Elizabeth Burns Coleman

Download or read book Medicine, Religion, and the Body written by Elizabeth Burns Coleman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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