TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferngren, Gary B.
TI  - Medicine and religion :a historical introduction 
SN  - 9781421412177
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
N1  - Also issued in print: 2014
N2  - Medicine and Religion examines the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian Gary B. Ferngren describes how the polytheistic religions of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and the monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have complemented medicine in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Ferngren paints a broad and detailed portrait of how humans throughout the ages have drawn on specific values of diverse religious traditions in caring for the body. Religious perspectives have informed both the treatment of disease and the provision of health care; online resource; Includes bibliographical references and index
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