Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789047444008
Series Statement:
International studies in religion and society v. 11
Content:
Preliminary Material /E. Burns Coleman and K. White -- The Meanings Of Health And Illness: Medicine, Religion And The Body /Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White -- Chapter One. Contested Sites: Aboriginal Health And Healers Engaging Western Medicine /Brian F. McCoy -- Chapter Two. The ‘Religionated’ Body: Fatwas And Body Parts /Roxanne D. Marcotte -- Chapter Three. The Body And The World In Buddhism /Peter G. Friedlander -- Chapter Four. Subtle Anatomy: The Bio-Metaphysics Of Alternative Therapies /Jay Johnston -- Chapter Five. Piety, Prolongevity And Perpetuity: The Consequences Of Living Forever /Bryan S. Turner -- Chapter Six. ‘Pity And Also Horror’: Public Mourning, Breast Cancer, And A French Queen /Thérèse Taylor -- Chapter Seven. Spiritual Boundary Work: How Spiritual Healers And Medical Clairvoyants Negotiate The Sacred /Ruth Barcan -- Chapter Eight. Moments Of Grace And Blessing: Rites And Rituals In The Process Of Healing /Roy J. O’Neill -- Chapter Nine. Limitations In Death: Negotiating Sentiment And Science In The Case Of The Hospital Autopsy /Philomena Horsley -- Chapter Ten. The Care Of The Body /Jeremy Shearmur -- Chapter Eleven. Deadly Sin: Gluttony, Obesity And Health Policy /William James Hoverd -- Chapter Twelve. Painful Paradoxes: Consumption, Sacrifice And Man-Building In The Age Of Nationalism /Christopher E. Forth -- Chapter Thirteen. Freezing Sacred Man: Myth, Philosophy, And Medicine’s Practice Of Curing Undesirables /Peter Arnds -- Bibliography /E. Burns Coleman and K. White -- Index /E. Burns Coleman and K. White.
Content:
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 autopsy and of the meanings attributed to illnesses and disease. Ritual and religious modifications to, and limitations on what may be done to the body raise cross cultural issues of great complexity – philosophically and theologically, as well as sociologically - within medicine and for health care practitioners, but also, as a matter of primary concern for the patient. The book explores the ways in which medicine organises the moral and the immoral, the sacred and the profane; how it mediates cultural concepts of the sacred – of the body, of blood and of life and death
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004179707
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Medicine, Religion, and the Body Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2010 ISBN 9789004179707
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/ej.9789004179707.i-300
