Ebook: Prescribing faith : medicine, media, and religion in American culture
Author: Badaracco Claire
- Tags: Medicine -- Religious aspects. Alternative medicine -- United States -- History. Spiritual healing -- United States -- History. Mass media -- Religious aspects. Health in mass media. Medicine. RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. BODY MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies. Wissenschaftlichkeit. Geistheilung.
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- City: USA., Waco, Tex., United States
- Language: English
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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 Read more...
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Traces the confluence of medicine, media and religion from mid-nineteenth century American culture to the present day. This title examines how media portrays the relationship between religious faith Read more...
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