Prescribing faith : medicine, media, and religion in American culture
Prescribing faith : medicine, media, and religion in American culture
- 자료유형
- 단행본 서양서
- 최종처리일시
- 20090624110022
- ISBN
- 9781932792898 : $29.95
- ISBN
- 9781932792898 (alk. paper)
- DDC
- 201.6610973-22
- 청구기호
- 201.6610973 B132p
- 서명/저자
- Prescribing faith : medicine, media, and religion in American culture / edited by Claire Hoertz Badaracco
- 발행사항
- Waco, Tex : Baylor University Press, c2007
- 형태사항
- xii, 264 p : ill. ; 23 cm
- 서지주기
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-247) and index.
- 내용주기
- 완전내용Man'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.
- 일반주제명
- Medicine Religious aspects
- 일반주제명
- Mass media Religious aspects
- 일반주제명
- Health in mass media
- 책소개
-
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.
