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 autop

Explores the interplay of medicine and religion in Western societies. Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship betwee

Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human body. However, much of the focus of thi

The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary, and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. Wh

What, exactly, does it mean to be human? It is an age-old question, one for which theology, philosophy, science, and medicine have all provided different answer