Research Catalog

Title

Prescribing faith : medicine, media, and religion in American culture / Claire Hoertz Badaracco.

Author

Badaracco, Claire.

Publication

Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2007.

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Description

xii, 264 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Overview: The healing powers of medicine and prayer are often media headlines. Not explored is how media itself has shaped popular ideas about religion and health. Prescribing Faith traces the confluence of medicine, media and religion from mid-nineteenth century American culture to the present day. Badaracco examines how media portrays the relationship between religious faith and medicine, showing that the relationship is one fraught with conflict of interest, controversy, and paradox. Prescribing Faith offers valuable insight into deconstructing religion and medicine as shaped by today's media.

Subject

• Spiritual Therapies
• Religion and Medicine
• Mass Media
• History, 21st Century
• History, 20th Century
• History, 19th Century
• Complementary Therapies
• Medicine > Religious aspects
• Alternative medicine > United States > History
• Spiritual healing > United States > History
• Mass media > Religious aspects
• Health in mass media
• United States

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-247) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

"Man's accidents are God's purposes" : Harvard and heroic cures -- Launching a scientific religion : Christian science and the book -- Measuring prayers : scientific models of religion -- Belief and wellness : medical pluralism and healing -- The medicated public square : advertising science.

ISBN

• 9781932792898 (alk. paper)
• 1932792899 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007026451

OCLC

• 148727764
• SCSB-12783349

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library