Type | Book |
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Author | Catherine Albanese |
Place | Chicago |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Date | 1990 |
ISBN | 9780226011455 |
Short Title | Nature religion in America |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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This study reveals an unorganized and previously unacknowledged religion at the heart of American culture. Nature, Albanese argues, has provided a compelling religious center throughout American history.
Type | Book |
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Author | Catherine Albanese |
Place | Harrisburg Pa. |
Publisher | Trinity Press International |
Date | 2002 |
ISBN | 9781563383762 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Nature religion is a much broader and more pervasive part of our culture than we may know. In the late twentieth century, for example, certain nature-based New Age perspectives and practices emerged—developments whose seeds were planted in the nature religion of nineteenth-century America. In Reconsidering Nature Religion, Catherine Albanese looks at the place where nature and religion come together, and explores how this operates in contemporary life and thinking. Nature, she says, functions as an absolute that grounds and orients life. Religion concerns the ways that people use this absolute of nature to form a meaningful life. And religion itself provides ways of interacting with nature. Nature religion is one essential way that people relate to the ordinary and extra-ordinary aspects of their worlds. It was so for people like the famous naturalist John Muir, and remains so for us today. For all of us, nature works in a religious way that informs and transforms life.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Hans A. Baer |
Abstract | Although osteopathy and chiropractic emerged as medical revitalization movements with a similar disease theory during the late 19th century, osteopathy has evolved into osteopathic medicine and surgery, and chiropractic has evolved into a musculoskeletal speciality. In this article I attempt to explain the divergent evolution of these two schools of manual medicine in the United States by considering their respective roles in addressing various structural problems in American health care, their contrasting relationships with biomedicine, organized biomedicine's stance toward the two alternative medical systems, and internal organizational conflicts within osteopathy and chiropractic. It will also show that both osteopathy and chiropractic were forced to some degree to converge with biomedicine both conceptually and therapeutically. |
Publication | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 176-193 |
Date | Jun., 1987 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 07455194 |
Short Title | Divergence and Convergence in Two Systems of Manual Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/648756 |
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Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jun., 1987 / Copyright © 1987 American Anthropological Association |
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Although osteopathy and chiropractic emerged as medical revitalization movements with a similar disease theory during the late 19th century, osteopathy has evolved into osteopathic medicine and surgery, and chiropractic has evolved into a musculoskeletal speciality. In this article I attempt to explain the divergent evolution of these two schools of manual medicine in the United States by considering their respective roles in addressing various structural problems in American health care, their contrasting relationships with biomedicine, organized biomedicine’s stance toward the two alternative medical systems, and internal organizational conflicts within osteopathy and chiropractic. It will also show that both osteopathy and chiropractic were forced to some degree to converge with biomedicine both conceptually and therapeutically.
Type | Book |
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Editor | Peter Biller |
Editor | Joseph Ziegler |
Series | York studies in medieval theology |
Series Number | 3 |
Place | Woodbridge, Suffolk |
Publisher | York Medieval Press |
Date | 2001 |
ISBN | 1903153077 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BX1795.H4 R45 2001 |
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The sheer extent of crossover - medics as religious men, religious men as medics, medical language at the service of preaching and moral-theological language deployed in medical writings - is the driving force behind these studies. The book reflects the extraordinary advances which ‘pure’ history of medicine has made in the last twenty years: there is medicine at the levels of midwife and village practitioner, the sweep of the learned Greek and Latin tradition of over a millennium; there is control of midwifery by the priest, therapy through liturgy, medicine as an expression of religious life for heretics, medicine invading theologians’ discussion of earthly paradise; and so on.
Type | Book |
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Author | Erika Brady |
Place | Logan Utah |
Publisher | Utah State University Press |
Date | 2001 |
ISBN | 9780874214116 |
Short Title | Healing logics |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Healing Logics provides an extensive, multicultural look at folk and alternative beliefs and practices concerning health and medicine and examines the interplay between formal and folk health care. It contains the following original contributions by leading scholars in the fields of medical anthropology and folk medicine.
Type | Book |
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Author | W. F Bynum |
Place | Oxford |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Date | 2008 |
ISBN | 9780199215430 |
Short Title | History of Medicine |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R131 .B974 2008 |
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Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times, through the scholastic medieval tradition and the Enlightenment to the present day. Taking a thematic rather than strictly chronological approach, W.F. Bynum, explores the key turning points in the history of Western medicine-such as the first surgical procedures, the advent of hospitals, the introduction of anesthesia, X-Rays, vaccinations, and many other innovations, as well as the rise of experimental medicine. The book also explores Western medicine’s encounters with Chinese and Indian medicine, as well as nontraditional treatments such as homeopathy, chiropractic, and other alternative medicines. Covering a vast amount of information, this Very Short Introduction sheds new light on medicine’s past, while at the same time engaging with contemporary issues, discoveries, and controversies, such as the spiraling costs of health care, lack of health insurance for millions, breakthrough treatments, and much more.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Richard A. Cooper |
Author | Heather J. McKee |
Abstract | Chiropractic is the best established of the alternative health care professions. Although marginalized for much of the 20th century, it has entered the mainstream of health care, gaining both legitimacy and access to third-party payers. However, the profession's efforts to validate the effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy, its principal modality, have yielded only modest and often contrary results. At the same time, reimbursement is shrinking, the number of practitioners is growing, and competition from other healing professions is increasing. The profession's efforts to establish a role in primary care are meeting resistance, and its attempts to broaden its activities in alternative medicine have inherent limitations. Although patients express a high level of satisfaction with chiropractic treatment and politicians are sympathetic to it, this may not be enough as our nation grapples to define the health care system that it can afford. |
Publication | The Milbank Quarterly |
Volume | 81 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 107-138 |
Date | 2003 |
ISSN | 0887378X |
Short Title | Chiropractic in the United States |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3655821 |
Accessed | Tue Nov 10 01:21:28 2009 |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 2003 / Copyright © 2003 Milbank Memorial Fund |
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Chiropractic is the best established of the alternative health care professions. Although marginalized for much of the 20th century, it has entered the mainstream of health care, gaining both legitimacy and access to third-party payers. However, the profession’s efforts to validate the effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy, its principal modality, have yielded only modest and often contrary results. At the same time, reimbursement is shrinking, the number of practitioners is growing, and competition from other healing professions is increasing. The profession’s efforts to establish a role in primary care are meeting resistance, and its attempts to broaden its activities in alternative medicine have inherent limitations. Although patients express a high level of satisfaction with chiropractic treatment and politicians are sympathetic to it, this may not be enough as our nation grapples to define the health care system that it can afford.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Ryan J. Fante |
Abstract | The pursuit of health is one of the most basic and prevalent concerns of humanity. In order to better attain and preserve health, a fundamental and unified description of the concept is required. Using Paul Tillich's ontological framework, I introduce a complete characterization of health and disease is that is useful to the philosophy of medicine and for health-care workers. Health cannot be understood merely as proper functioning of the physical body or of the separated levels of body, mind, and soul. Rather, the multidimensional unity that is the essence of human life requires a new understanding of health as balanced self-integration within the multiple human dimensions. The ontological description of health and disease has concrete implications for how health-care workers should approach healing. It calls for a multidimensional approach to healing in which particular healing is needed and helpful if it considers the other realms of the human. It reveals the importance of accepting limited health as well as the value of faith understood as an ultimate concern because of its ability to wholly integrate the person. |
Publication | Zygon |
Volume | 44 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 65-84 |
Date | 2009 |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2009.00986.x |
Short Title | An Ontology of Health |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2009.00986.x |
Accessed | Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 2009 |
Library Catalog | Wiley InterScience |
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The pursuit of health is one of the most basic and prevalent concerns of humanity. In order to better attain and preserve health, a fundamental and unified description of the concept is required. Using Paul Tillich’s ontological framework, I introduce a complete characterization of health and disease is that is useful to the philosophy of medicine and for health-care workers. Health cannot be understood merely as proper functioning of the physical body or of the separated levels of body, mind, and soul. Rather, the multidimensional unity that is the essence of human life requires a new understanding of health as balanced self-integration within the multiple human dimensions. The ontological description of health and disease has concrete implications for how health-care workers should approach healing. It calls for a multidimensional approach to healing in which particular healing is needed and helpful if it considers the other realms of the human. It reveals the importance of accepting limited health as well as the value of faith understood as an ultimate concern because of its ability to wholly integrate the person.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | George M. Foster |
Abstract | For the past half-century humoral medicine has been recognized by anthropologists to be the most important and widespread ethnomedical system in Latin America. While most scholars believe this system is largely a simplified folk variant of classical Greek and Persian humoral pathology, a small minority--particularly Audrey Butt Colson and Alfredo López Austin--argues for a New World origin. In this paper the author supports the former hypothesis by tracing the well-documented history of classical medicine from Greece and Persia to Latin America, where it was disseminated via formal medical education, hospitals and missionary orders, home medical guides and pharmacies. The fallacies in the arguments of Colson and López Austin are also pointed out. |
Publication | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 355-393 |
Date | Dec., 1987 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 07455194 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/648542 |
Accessed | Tue Oct 13 00:00:08 2009 |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Dec., 1987 / Copyright © 1987 American Anthropological Association |
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For the past half-century humoral medicine has been recognized by anthropologists to be the most important and widespread ethnomedical system in Latin America. While most scholars believe this system is largely a simplified folk variant of classical Greek and Persian humoral pathology, a small minority--particularly Audrey Butt Colson and Alfredo López Austin--argues for a New World origin. In this paper the author supports the former hypothesis by tracing the well-documented history of classical medicine from Greece and Persia to Latin America, where it was disseminated via formal medical education, hospitals and missionary orders, home medical guides and pharmacies. The fallacies in the arguments of Colson and López Austin are also pointed out.
Type | Book |
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Author | Robert Fuller |
Place | Philadelphia |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Date | 1982 |
ISBN | 9780812278477 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Sat Oct 1 16:51:22 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | Robert C Fuller |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Date | 1989 |
ISBN | 0195057759 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R733 .F85 1989 |
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Modified | Sat Oct 1 16:51:22 2011 |
The late 1980s have seen an explosion of interest in an unconventional, and sometimes bizarre, set of practices and beliefs commonly called the New Age movement. Led by such visible figures as Shirley MacLaine, thousands of Americans have turned to a wide range of self-help methods and philosophies geared toward spiritual fulfillment and, particularly, healing of the body, including acupuncture, channeling, and crystals. What all these methods seem to have in common is an attempt to eschew conventional medical treatments, to move beyond the mysteries of the body to those of the psyche and soul. But as Robert C. Fuller demonstrates in this fascinating and surprising new book, such “alternative” forms of healing are nothing new in American culture. Going back to the early nineteenth century, Fuller asserts, Americans have relied on a bewildering assortment of unorthodox medical systems that represent a characteristically American strain of religious thought--a belief that spiritual, physical, and even economic well-being flow from an individual’s rapport with the cosmos. Drawing on a wealth of historical, psychological, and sociological information, Fuller’s story begins with such early health reforms as homeopathy, hydropathy, and Thomsonianism (which held that all disease was caused by cold and could be cured by heat). Though fairly conventional in outlook, they signaled the appearance of metaphysical elements that were destined to erupt in later movements. Fuller then looks at mesmerism and Swedenborgianism, which sprang up in the 1830s and 40s. Both of these movements were extremely popular in America, promising a triumph of piety and spirituality over the weaknesses of the body and mind, and changing the way thousands of Americans looked at modern medicine. Fuller traces this increasing metaphysical dimension, first in the early practices of osteopathic and chiropractic medicine, and then throughout the twentieth century in such varied and colorful systems as crystal healing, rolfing, spirit channeling, holistic health, and even Alcoholics Anonymous. Fuller argues that these healing movements have played an important role in American religious life, offering people a more vivid experience of a “sacred reality” than do most organized religions. His fascinating and sympathetic look at this thriving, and peculiarly American, mode of religion will interest a wide range of readers interested in American religious, cultural, and medical history.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | R L Garrison |
Abstract | Current medical authors frequently use the term "revolution," yet American medicine is resisting change rather than embracing it. The last completed American medical revolutionary movement was the specialist-technologist movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This paper describes a five-generational model of revolution. First-generation persons foment revolution; second-generation persons shape it into workable form and precipitate conflict; third-generation persons join the fight only when it appears to be all but won; fourth-generation persons enjoy the fruits of revolution; and fifth-generation persons, having risen to domination in the mature system, resist all attempts at reform by the next round of revolutionaries. In political revolutions, severe reactionary activity by the ruling party is often an indicator of an imminent overthrow by revolution. In scientific revolutions, the opposition of an established (specialist-technologist) paradigm to an emerging alternative (generalist) paradigm increases in intensity as the old order declines in strength; the opposition becomes most fierce just before the collapse of the old order. American specialist-technologist medicine, declining into its senescent fifth generation, will resist all but incremental change whenever possible, and accept major change only by force. |
Publication | The Journal of Family Practice |
Volume | 40 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 281-287 |
Date | Mar 1995 |
Journal Abbr | J Fam Pract |
ISSN | 0094-3509 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/7876786 |
Accessed | Tue Oct 20 21:03:04 2009 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 7876786 |
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Current medical authors frequently use the term “revolution,” yet American medicine is resisting change rather than embracing it. The last completed American medical revolutionary movement was the specialist-technologist movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This paper describes a five-generational model of revolution. First-generation persons foment revolution; second-generation persons shape it into workable form and precipitate conflict; third-generation persons join the fight only when it appears to be all but won; fourth-generation persons enjoy the fruits of revolution; and fifth-generation persons, having risen to domination in the mature system, resist all attempts at reform by the next round of revolutionaries. In political revolutions, severe reactionary activity by the ruling party is often an indicator of an imminent overthrow by revolution. In scientific revolutions, the opposition of an established (specialist-technologist) paradigm to an emerging alternative (generalist) paradigm increases in intensity as the old order declines in strength; the opposition becomes most fierce just before the collapse of the old order. American specialist-technologist medicine, declining into its senescent fifth generation, will resist all but incremental change whenever possible, and accept major change only by force.
Type | Book |
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Author | Norman Gevitz |
Place | Baltimore |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Date | 1988 |
ISBN | 9780801837104 |
Short Title | Other healers |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Nine scholars examine the history of social dynamics of alternative health practices in this country. Editor Gevitz provides a historical and theoretical overview, followed by essays on botanical, health reform, and water-cure movements, homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic, Christian Science, divine healing, and contemporary folk medicine. Admirably nonpolemical, this book will be of interest to scholars in medical history, sociology, and anthropology; American and women’s studies (the water cure having feminist connections); and folklore.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | M A Gravitz |
Abstract | Following an unsuccessful attempt by Mesmer to bring animal magnetism to the United States in 1784 through the Marquis de Lafayette, there was a period of little activity there for several decades. Then, concurrent with its revival in Europe and led by a few American practitioners who had been trained in France, several early societies of American magnetizers were founded beginning about 1815. These were initially organized in New York City and subsequently in New Orleans, Boston, Clinton, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Philadelphia. They played an important role in the development of hypnosis in America. |
Publication | The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis |
Volume | 37 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 41-48 |
Date | Jul 1994 |
Journal Abbr | Am J Clin Hypn |
ISSN | 0002-9157 |
Short Title | Early American mesmeric societies |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/8085545 |
Accessed | Tue Nov 10 01:43:41 2009 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 8085545 |
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Following an unsuccessful attempt by Mesmer to bring animal magnetism to the United States in 1784 through the Marquis de Lafayette, there was a period of little activity there for several decades. Then, concurrent with its revival in Europe and led by a few American practitioners who had been trained in France, several early societies of American magnetizers were founded beginning about 1815. These were initially organized in New York City and subsequently in New Orleans, Boston, Clinton, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Philadelphia. They played an important role in the development of hypnosis in America.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Curtis W Hart |
Author | M Div |
Abstract | The contemporary dialogue between religion and psychiatry has its roots in what is called the clinical pastoral movement. The early leaders of the clinical pastoral movement (Anton Boisen, Elwood Worcester, Helen Flanders Dunbar, and Richard Cabot) were individuals of talent, even genius, whose lives and work intersected one another in the early decades of the twentieth century. Their legacy endures in the persons they inspired and continue to inspire and in the professional organizations and academic programs that profit from their pioneering work. To understand them and the era of their greatest productivity is to understand some of what psychiatry and religion have to say to each other. Appreciating their legacy requires attention to the context of historical movements and forces current in America at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century that shaped religious, psychiatric, and cultural discourse. This essay attempts to provide an introduction to this rich and fascinating material. This material was first presented as a Grand Rounds lecture at The New York Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney Westchester in the Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College. |
Publication | Journal of Religion and Health |
Volume | 49 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 536-546 |
Date | Dec 2010 |
Journal Abbr | J Relig Health |
DOI | 10.1007/s10943-010-9347-6 |
ISSN | 1573-6571 |
Short Title | Present at the creation |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/20300962 |
Accessed | Tue Jan 18 19:03:10 2011 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20300962 |
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Modified | Thu Sep 29 08:58:46 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | Pamela Klassen |
Place | Princeton |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Date | 2001 |
ISBN | 9780691087979 |
Short Title | Blessed events |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | William Rothstein |
Edition | Softshell Books ed. |
Place | Baltimore |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Date | 1992 |
ISBN | 9780801844270 |
Short Title | American physicians in the nineteenth century |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | Rennie B Schoepflin |
Series | Medicine, science, and religion in historical context |
Place | Baltimore |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Date | 2003 |
ISBN | 0801870577 |
Short Title | Christian Science on Trial |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | BX6950 .S34 2003 |
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Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | Paul W Sharkey |
Place | Lewiston, N.Y., USA |
Publisher | E. Mellen Press |
Date | 1992 |
ISBN | 0773492100 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R723 .S515 1992 |
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The study’s central thesis is that medicine reflects better than any other discipline the ethical crises of our age and that these are the natural result of the schism between “facts” and “values” brought about at the time of the scientific revolution. It offers a brief introduction to the philosophical history of medicine, argues that current ethical theory rests upon a fallacy of abstraction, calls for a more realistic appraisal of ethical responsibility, and challenges the notion that ethics is necessarily more “subjective” than science. The work goes on to examine the role of ethics in medical education, managing ethical issues in health-care delivery systems, medical economics, abortion, and sexually transmissible diseases, giving special attention to the realities of ethical responsibility in each case.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Patricia A. Sharpnack |
Author | Mary T. Quinn Griffin |
Author | Alison M. Benders |
Author | Joyce J. Fitzpatrick |
Abstract | Although the use of spiritual and alternative healthcare practices is increasing, knowledge of these practices among the Amish is limited. This study explored the spiritual and healthcare practices of 134 Amish. Information about the diversity and prevalence of these practices among the Amish may be useful to nurses in practice. |
Publication | Holistic Nursing Practice |
Volume | 24 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 64-72 |
Date | 2010 Mar-Apr |
Journal Abbr | Holist Nurs Pract |
DOI | 10.1097/HNP.0b013e3181d39ade |
ISSN | 1550-5138 |
Accessed | Mon Mar 22 20:17:27 2010 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20186016 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:04:02 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:04:02 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | Joel James Shuman |
Series | Radical traditions |
Place | Boulder, Colo |
Publisher | Westview Press |
Date | 1999 |
ISBN | 0813367042 |
Short Title | The Body of Compassion |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R725.56 .S54 1999 |
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Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | David Smith |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Crossroad |
Date | 1986 |
ISBN | 9780824507169 |
Short Title | Health and medicine in the Anglican tradition |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | Paul Starr |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Date | 1982 |
ISBN | 9780465079346 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Margaret P Wardlaw |
Abstract | Modern medicine serves a religious function for modern Americans as a conduit through which science can be applied directly to the human body. The first half of this paper will focus on the theoretical foundations for viewing medicine as a religious practice arguing that just as a hierarchical structured authoritarian church historically mediated access to God, contemporary Western medicine provides a conduit by which the universalizable truths of science can be applied to the human being thereby functioning as a new established religion. I will then illustrate the many parallels between medicine and religion through an analysis of rituals and symbols surrounding and embedded within the modern practice of medicine. This analysis will pay special attention to the primacy placed on secret interior knowledge of the human body. I will end by responding to the hope for a "secularization of American medicine," exploring some of the negative consequences of secularization, and arguing that, rather than seeking to secularize, American medicine should strive to use its religious features to offer hope and healing to the sick, in keeping with its historically religious legacy. |
Publication | Journal of Religion and Health |
Volume | 50 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 62-74 |
Date | Mar 2011 |
Journal Abbr | J Relig Health |
DOI | 10.1007/s10943-010-9320-4 |
ISSN | 1573-6571 |
Short Title | American medicine as religious practice |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20094797 |
Accessed | Mon Apr 4 19:48:36 2011 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20094797 |
Date Added | Thu Sep 29 08:56:31 2011 |
Modified | Thu Sep 29 08:56:31 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | John Warner |
Place | Cambridge Mass. |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Date | 1986 |
ISBN | 9780674883307 |
Short Title | The therapeutic perspective |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Type | Book |
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Author | James C Whorton |
Place | Oxford |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Date | 2002 |
# of Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 0195140710 |
Short Title | Nature Cures |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R733 .W495 2002 |
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Esteemed medical historian Dr. James C. Whorton seeks to bring light to the flourishing of complementary and alternative medicine and provide its rich historical context in Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America. Whorton packs his book with historical information, primary research, detailed analysis, and the occasional apt poem to blend the diverse sections together into a comprehensive textbook that is both illuminating and accessible. It is a treasure for anyone, scholarly or not, who wants to learn about CAM, its history, and its place within American culture. While he seems to have fun with some of the more peculiar aspects of alternative medicine and its history, Whorton has a strong sympathy with the underlying worldview of CAM.
Type | Book |
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Author | Alison Winter |
Place | Chicago |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Date | 1998 |
ISBN | 9780226902197 |
Short Title | Mesmerized |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Albrecht H K Wobst |
Abstract | Hypnosis has been defined as the induction of a subjective state in which alterations of perception or memory can be elicited by suggestion. Ever since the first public demonstrations of "animal magnetism" by Mesmer in the 18th century, the use of this psychological tool has fascinated the medical community and public alike. The application of hypnosis to alter pain perception and memory dates back centuries. Yet little progress has been made to fully comprehend or appreciate its potential compared to the pharmacologic advances in anesthesiology. Recently, hypnosis has aroused interest, as hypnosis seems to complement and possibly enhance conscious sedation. Contemporary clinical investigators claim that the combination of analgesia and hypnosis is superior to conventional pharmacologic anesthesia for minor surgical cases, with patients and surgeons responding favorably. Simultaneously, basic research of pain pathways involving the nociceptive flexion reflex and positron emission tomography has yielded objective data regarding the physiologic correlates of hypnosis. In this article I review the history, basic scientific and clinical studies, and modern practical considerations of one of the oldest therapeutical tools: the power of suggestion. |
Publication | Anesthesia and Analgesia |
Volume | 104 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 1199-1208 |
Date | May 2007 |
Journal Abbr | Anesth. Analg |
DOI | 10.1213/01.ane.0000260616.49050.6d |
ISSN | 1526-7598 |
Short Title | Hypnosis and surgery |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/17456675 |
Accessed | Tue Nov 10 01:41:51 2009 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 17456675 |
Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Hypnosis has been defined as the induction of a subjective state in which alterations of perception or memory can be elicited by suggestion. Ever since the first public demonstrations of “animal magnetism” by Mesmer in the 18th century, the use of this psychological tool has fascinated the medical community and public alike. The application of hypnosis to alter pain perception and memory dates back centuries. Yet little progress has been made to fully comprehend or appreciate its potential compared to the pharmacologic advances in anesthesiology. Recently, hypnosis has aroused interest, as hypnosis seems to complement and possibly enhance conscious sedation. Contemporary clinical investigators claim that the combination of analgesia and hypnosis is superior to conventional pharmacologic anesthesia for minor surgical cases, with patients and surgeons responding favorably. Simultaneously, basic research of pain pathways involving the nociceptive flexion reflex and positron emission tomography has yielded objective data regarding the physiologic correlates of hypnosis. In this article I review the history, basic scientific and clinical studies, and modern practical considerations of one of the oldest therapeutical tools: the power of suggestion.