Healing words
Subtitle: the power of prayer and the practice of medicine
By: Larry Dossey
Publisher: HarperPaperbacks; HarperOne
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780061043833
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Mental Healing; Healing; Religion and Medicine; Medicine; Religious aspects; Prayer
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: Saints and sinners, health and illness; title: The reach of the mind: setting the stage for prayer; title: Prayer and the unconscious mind; title: Where do prayers go?; title: How to pray and what to pray for; title: Love and healing; title: Time-displaced prayer: when prayers are answered before they are made; title: Your doctor's beliefs and why they matter; title: When prayer hurts: an inquiry into "Black prayer"; title: God in the laboratory; title: Prayer and healing: reviewing the research; title: What is healing?; title: Appendix 1. Controlled experimental trials of healing; title: Appendix 2. Spontaneous regression of cancer; title: Appendix 3. How good is the evidence?: prayer, meditation, and parapsychology; title: Appendix 4. Healing and the mind: a summing up.