Prescribing faith
Subtitle: medicine, media, and religion in American culture
By: Claire Hoertz Badaracco.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781932792898
Subjects: Medicine -- Religious aspects; Alternative medicine -- United States -- History; Spiritual healing -- United States -- History; Mass media -- Religious aspects; Health in mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Man's accidents are God's purposes? : Harvard and heroic cures; title: Launching a scientific religion : Christian science and the book; title: Measuring prayers : scientific models of religion; title: Belief and wellness : medical pluralism and healing; title: The medicated public square : advertising science.