Religion, Health and Suffering (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hinnells, John R.; Porter, Roy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136175855
• Artikelnr.: 39957037

Autorenporträt

John R. Hinnells, Roy Porter

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION; SECTION I: Cross-Cultural Studies: HEALTH AND SUFFERING IN
ZOROASTRIANISM; THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE PHYSICAL BODY: HEALTH, SUFFERING
AND KARMA IN HINDU THOUGHT SUFFERING AND SANCTIFICATION IN CHRISTIANITY;
CAN GOD INFLICT UNREQUITED PAIN ON HIS CREATURES? MUSLIM PERSPECTIVES ON
HEALTH AND SUFFERING; RELIGION, HEALTH AND SUFFERING AMONG CONTEMPORARY
TIBETANS; SIKH PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH AND SUFFERING: A FOCUS ON SIKH
THEODICY; HEALTH AND SUFFERING IN BUDDHISM: DOCTRINAL AND EXISTENTIAL
CONSIDERATIONS; RELIGION, HEALTH AND SUFFERING FROM FOLK MEDICINE TO
BIOETHICS IN JUDAISM; SECTION II: Non-European Health Systems: CHINESE
HEALTH BELIEFS; MEDICINE AND MARTYRDOM: SOME DISCUSSIONS OF SUFFERING AND
DIVINE JUSTICE IN EARLY ISLAMIC SOCIETY; APPEASING THE SPIRITS: HEALING
STRATEGIES IN POSTWAR SOUTHERN MOZAMBIQUE; MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE: DEMONIC
VENGEANCE IN CLASSICAL INDIAN MEDICINE; SECTION III: Pre-Modem Western
Medicine: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON MEDICINE AND RELIGION IN THE ANCIENT
WORLD; PAIN IN HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE; MEDICINE FOR THE SOUL: THE MEDIEVAL
ENGLISH HOSPITAL AND THE QUEST FOR SPIRITUAL HEALTH; FEAR, ANXIETY AND THE
PLAGUE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND: RELIGIOUS AND MEDICAL RESPONSES; SECTION
IV: Modem Medicine: WESTERN MEDICINE AND PAIN: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES;
BEYOND THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE? RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE;
AGENCY AND COMMUNITY: THE LOCATION AND DISPERSAL OF INVIDIA; A GENERAL
PRACTITIONER IN THE INNER CITY-THE REALITIES AND THE DIFFICULTIES;
CONCLUSION: SUFFER MANY HEALERS