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

Numbers, Ronald L. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801857961 ISBN 13: 9780801857966

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Synopsis

A fascinating and enlightening overview of how religious values have come to affect the practice of medicine and medical care.

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.

About this title

About the Authors

Ronald L. Numbers is the Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the editor of Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion.

Darrel W. Amundsen is a professor of classics at Western Washington University.

From the Back Cover

Most religious traditions have a rich 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 twenty 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801857961
• ISBN 13: 9780801857966
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 622