| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Catherine L. Albanese |
| Publication | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 305-325 |
| Date | Jun., 1999 |
| ISSN | 00027189 |
| Short Title | The Subtle Energies of Spirit |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1465739 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:39:13 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jun., 1999 / Copyright © 1999 American Academy of Religion |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Linda L Barnes |
| Author | Inés Talamantez |
| Contributor | American Academy of Religion |
| Place | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Date | 2006 |
| ISBN | 019517643X |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | BL41 .T43 2006 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
This volume is designed to help instructors incorporate discussion of healing into their courses and to encourage the development of courses focused on religion and healing. It brings together essays by leading experts in a range of disciplines and addresses the role of healing in many different religious traditions. The primary target audience comprises faculty in religious studies, divinity schools, anthropology, sociology, and ethnic studies. However, the volume also addresses the needs of educators training pre-med students and will be an invaluable resource for those involved in educating physicians, health care professionals, and chaplains, particularly in relation to what is referred to as “cultural competence” - the ability to work with multicultural and religiously diverse patient populations.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | John Bowker |
| Place | Cambridge |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Date | 1970 |
| ISBN | 9780521074124 |
| Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
A comparative general study of the problems of suffering as treated by Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Marxism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism and Buddhism.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Sandra Carlisle |
| Author | Gregor Henderson |
| Author | Phil W Hanlon |
| Abstract | In the now vast empirical and theoretical literature on wellbeing knowledge of the subject is provided mainly by psychology and economics, where understanding of the concept are framed in very different ways. We briefly rehearse these, before turning to some important critical points which can be made about this burgeoning research industry, including the tight connections between the meanings of the concept with the moral value systems of particular 'modern' societies. We then argue that both the 'science' of wellbeing and its critique are, despite their diversity, re-connected by and subsumed within the emerging environmental critique of modern consumer society. This places concerns for individual and social wellbeing within the broader context of global human problems and planetary wellbeing. A growing number of thinkers now suggest that Western society and culture are dominated by materialistic and individualistic values, made manifest at the political and social levels through the unending pursuit of economic growth, and at the individual level by the seemingly endless quest for consumer goods, regardless of global implications such as broader environmental harms. The escalating growth of such values is associated with a growing sense of individual alienation, social fragmentation and civic disengagement and with the decline of more spiritual, moral and ethical aspects of life. Taken together, these multiple discourses suggest that wellbeing can be understood as a collateral casualty of the economic, social and cultural changes associated with late modernity. However, increasing concerns for the environment have the potential to counter some of these trends, and in so doing could also contribute to our wellbeing as individuals and as social beings in a finite world. |
| Publication | Social Science & Medicine |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1556-1560 |
| Date | Nov 2009 |
| Journal Abbr | Soc Sci Med |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.08.029 |
| ISSN | 1873-5347 |
| Short Title | 'Wellbeing' |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19765875 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 23 19:39:44 2009 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 19765875 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:04:55 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:04:55 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Phil B Fontanarosa |
| Place | Chicago, Ill |
| Publisher | American Medical Association |
| Date | 2000 |
| ISBN | 1579470025 |
| Short Title | Alternative Medicine |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Shigehisa Kuriyama |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Zone Books |
| Date | 1999 |
| ISBN | 0942299884 |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | R723 .K87 1999 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Jeff Levin |
| Publication | Explore (New York, N.Y.) |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 101-112 |
| Date | 2008 Mar-Apr |
| Journal Abbr | Explore (NY) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.explore.2007.12.003 |
| ISSN | 1550-8307 |
| Short Title | Esoteric healing traditions |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18316053 |
| Accessed | Fri Nov 13 18:46:30 2009 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 18316053 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Nov 3 09:06:48 2011 |
This paper presents, for the first time, a comprehensive scholarly examination of the history and principles of major traditions of esoteric healing. After a brief conceptual overview of esoteric religion and healing, summaries are provided of eight major esoteric traditions, including descriptions of beliefs and practices related to health, healing, and medicine. These include what are termed the kabbalistic tradition, the mystery school tradition, the gnostic tradition, the brotherhoods tradition, the Eastern mystical tradition, the Western mystical tradition, the shamanic tradition, and the new age tradition. Next, commonalities across these traditions are summarized with respect to beliefs and practices related to anatomy and physiology; nosology and etiology; pathophysiology; and therapeutic modalities. Finally, the implications of this survey of esoteric healing are discussed for clinicians, biomedical researchers, and medical educators.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Paul J Rosch |
| Abstract | The concept of a "life energy" can be found in many cultures in the present time, as well as in past eras reaching back to the ancients. Variously called qi (chi), ki, the "four humors,"prana, "archaeus,""cosmic aether,""universal fluid,""animal magnetism," and "odic force," among other names, this purported biofield is beginning to yield its properties and interactions to the scientific method. Subtle energy is the term used in this chapter, which traces the recent history of subtle energy studies from Harold Saxton Burr and Björn Nordenström to Jim Oschman and Jacques Benveniste. This work takes signaling in living systems from the chemical/molecular to the physical/atomic level of communication. Effects on heart rate variability, stress response, inflammation, and the vagus nerve have been demonstrated and raise the question--Can the power of subtle energies be harnessed for health enhancement? It is fully accepted that good health depends on good communication both within the organism and between the organism and its environment. Sophisticated imaging procedures brought to bear on telomere, stem cell, and genetic research are confirming the ability of meditation and some other traditional practices to promote optimal health through stress reduction. |
| Publication | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
| Volume | 1172 |
| Pages | 297-311 |
| Date | Aug 2009 |
| Journal Abbr | Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04535.x |
| ISSN | 1749-6632 |
| Short Title | Bioelectromagnetic and subtle energy medicine |
| Accessed | Sat Sep 26 15:41:25 2009 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 19735252 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:06:02 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:06:02 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Ursula Sharma |
| Publication | Anthropology Today |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 15-18 |
| Date | Aug., 1993 |
| ISSN | 0268540X |
| Short Title | Contextualizing Alternative Medicine |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2783450 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 9 00:10:18 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Aug., 1993 / Copyright © 1993 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Anees A Sheikh |
| Author | Katharina S Sheikh |
| Series | Wiley series on health psychology/behavioral medicine |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Date | 1989 |
| ISBN | 0471628905 |
| Short Title | Eastern and Western Approaches to Healing |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | R726.5 .E27 1989 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
This book surveys the various approaches to health care as defined by the major Eastern and Western philosophies. Contains comments on the effect Eastern thought has had on Western medicine and psychology.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | H Soreq |
| Place | Weinheim; Chichester |
| Publisher | Wiley-VCH |
| Date | 2009 |
| ISBN | 9783527323746 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:04:35 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:04:35 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Howard M Spiro |
| Author | Mary G. McCrea Curnen |
| Author | Lee Palmer Wandel |
| Contributor | Yale University |
| Contributor | Goethe-Institut (Boston, Mass.) |
| Place | New Haven |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Date | 1996 |
| ISBN | 0300063490 |
| Short Title | Facing Death |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
This book brings together health professionals and distinguished authorities in the humanities to reflect on medical, cultural, and religious responses to death. Physicians and other caregivers describe their experiences witnessing death, and theologians, historians, anthropologists, literary scholars, and pastors tell how other cultures and religions perceive death and mourn. For medical personnel and for patients, this collection affirms that death is less an adversary than a defining part of life.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Lawrence Sullivan |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Macmillan |
| Date | 1989 |
| ISBN | 9780029237915 |
| Short Title | Healing and restoring |
| Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Andrew Vickers |
| Author | Catherine Zollman |
| Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
| Volume | 319 |
| Issue | 7216 |
| Pages | 1050-1053 |
| Date | Oct. 16, 1999 |
| ISSN | 09598138 |
| Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186102 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 9 00:28:08 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Oct. 16, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Jordan Wicker |
| Author | Kenneth Kamler |
| Abstract | This review covers historical perspectives of regeneration biology and current research regarding human extremity tissue regeneration. With a greater understanding of the mechanisms involved in regeneration, cognitive-behavioral practices such as meditation and yoga may assist in achieving regeneration. |
| Publication | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
| Volume | 1172 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-109 |
| Date | 08/2009 |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04413.x |
| ISSN | 00778923 |
| Accessed | Fri Feb 4 10:44:51 2011 |
| Library Catalog | CrossRef |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:05:38 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:05:38 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Roland Zahn |
| Author | Jorge Moll |
| Author | Mirella Paiva |
| Author | Griselda Garrido |
| Author | Frank Krueger |
| Author | Edward D Huey |
| Author | Jordan Grafman |
| Abstract | Social values are composed of social concepts (e.g., "generosity") and context-dependent moral sentiments (e.g., "pride"). The neural basis of this intricate cognitive architecture has not been investigated thus far. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging while subjects imagined their own actions toward another person (self-agency) which either conformed or were counter to a social value and were associated with pride or guilt, respectively. Imagined actions of another person toward the subjects (other-agency) in accordance with or counter to a value were associated with gratitude or indignation/anger. As hypothesized, superior anterior temporal lobe (aTL) activity increased with conceptual detail in all conditions. During self-agency, activity in the anterior ventromedial prefrontal cortex correlated with pride and guilt, whereas activity in the subgenual cingulate solely correlated with guilt. In contrast, indignation/anger activated lateral orbitofrontal-insular cortices. Pride and gratitude additionally evoked mesolimbic and basal forebrain activations. Our results demonstrate that social values emerge from coactivation of stable abstract social conceptual representations in the superior aTL and context-dependent moral sentiments encoded in fronto-mesolimbic regions. This neural architecture may provide the basis of our ability to communicate about the meaning of social values across cultural contexts without limiting our flexibility to adapt their emotional interpretation. |
| Publication | Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y.: 1991) |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 276-283 |
| Date | Feb 2009 |
| Journal Abbr | Cereb. Cortex |
| DOI | 10.1093/cercor/bhn080 |
| ISSN | 1460-2199 |
| Short Title | The neural basis of human social values |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18502730 |
| Accessed | Mon Mar 28 18:29:00 2011 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 18502730 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:06:18 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:06:18 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Catherine Zollman |
| Author | Andrew Vickers |
| Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
| Volume | 319 |
| Issue | 7211 |
| Pages | 693-696 |
| Date | Sep. 11, 1999 |
| ISSN | 09598138 |
| Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25185762 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:21:00 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Sep. 11, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Catherine Zollman |
| Author | Andrew Vickers |
| Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
| Volume | 319 |
| Issue | 7213 |
| Pages | 836-838 |
| Date | Sep. 25, 1999 |
| ISSN | 09598138 |
| Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25185898 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 9 00:28:42 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Sep. 25, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Catherine Zollman |
| Author | Andrew Vickers |
| Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
| Volume | 319 |
| Issue | 7224 |
| Pages | 1558-1561 |
| Date | Dec. 11, 1999 |
| ISSN | 09598138 |
| Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186616 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 9 00:29:04 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Dec. 11, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |