Research Catalog

Title

Caring and curing : health and medicine in the Western religious traditions / edited by Ronald L. Numbers, Darrel W. Amundsen ; with a foreword by Martin E. Marty.

Publication

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Numbers, Ronald L.
• Amundsen, Darrel W.

Description

xx, 601 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 [...] 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"--Back cover.

Subject

• Health > Religious aspects
• Medicine > Religious aspects
• Religion and Medicine
• Western World
• Judaism
• Catholicism
• Christianity
• Ethics, Medical

Note

• Originally published: New York : Macmillan, c1986.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Jewish tradition / Elliot N. Dorff -- Early Christian tradition / Darrel W. Amundsen, Gary B. Ferngren -- Medieval Catholic tradition / Darrel W. Amundsen -- Roman Catholic tradition since 1545 / Marvin R. O'Connell -- Eastern Orthodox tradition / Stanley Samuel Harakas -- Lutheran tradition / Carter Lindberg -- Reformed tradition / James H. Smylie -- Anglican tradition / John E. Booty -- Anabaptist tradition / Walter Klaassen -- Baptist tradition / Timothy P. Weber
• Wesleyan-Methodist tradition / Harold Y. Vanderpool -- Unitarian and Universalist traditions / Spencer Lavan, George Huntston Williams -- Disciples of Christ-Church of Christ tradition / David Edwin Harrell -- Mormon tradition / Lester E. Bush -- Christian Science tradition / Rennie B. Schoepflin -- Adventist tradition / Ronald L. Numbers, David R. Larson -- Jehova's Witness tradition / William H. Cumberland -- Evangelical-fundamentalist tradition / Gary B. Fernfren -- Pentecostal tradition / Grant Wacker -- Afro-American traditions / Albert J. Raboteau.

ISBN

0801857961 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97028500^

OCLC

• 37293361
• SCSB-11931737

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library