• The Journey Toward Wholeness: A Christ-Centered Approach to Health and Healing

    Type Book
    Author Kenneth L Bakken
    Author Kathleen H Hofeller
    Place New York
    Publisher Crossroad
    Date 1988
    ISBN 0824508815
    Short Title The Journey Toward Wholeness
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BT732
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
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    Tags:

    • CHRISTIAN life
    • Health
    • Lutheran authors
    • Religious aspects
    • Spiritual healing

  • Despair, Sickness or Sin?: Hopelessness and Healing in the Christian Life

    Type Book
    Author Mary Louise Bringle
    Place Nashville
    Publisher Abingdon Press
    Date 1990
    ISBN 0687104939
    Short Title Despair, Sickness or Sin?
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BT774.5 .B75 1990
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Despair
    • Health
    • hope
    • Laziness
    • Religious aspects
    • Sin

  • Health and Medicine Among the Latter-Day Saints: Science,sense, and Scripture

    Type Book
    Author Lester E Bush
    Series Health/medicine and the faith traditions
    Place New York
    Publisher Crossroad
    Date 1993
    ISBN 0824512197
    Short Title Health and Medicine Among the Latter-Day Saints
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BX8643.H8 B87 1993
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Christianity
    • Health
    • Hygiene, Mormon
    • Medicine
    • Membership
    • Mental Healing
    • Mormon Church
    • Religion and Medicine
    • Religious aspects
    • Spiritual healing

  • Sickness or Sin: Spiritual Discernment and Differential Diagnosis

    Type Book
    Author John T Chirban
    Place Brookline, MA
    Publisher Holy Cross Orthodox Press
    Date 2001
    ISBN 1885652496
    Short Title Sickness or Sin
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BX323 .S53 2001
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
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    Tags:

    • Discernment of spirits
    • DISEASES
    • Health
    • Medicine
    • Psychology and religion
    • Religious aspects
    • Sin

    Notes:

    • This book makes a tremendously important contribution to the dialogue between Christian faith and the healing professions. Noting that “knowing what to do and how and when to do it characterizes the essence of spiritual discernment and differential diagnosis,” John Chirban has focused this collection of articles around the critical issue of understanding in the therapeutic encounter. Drawing on the richness of the Orthodox Christian tradition, contributors identify rich resources to aid this process of therapeutic discernment. The result is a book that should be recognized for its value not only to Orthodox Christians but to all Christians with interest in under-standing the nature of personal formation, deformation and transformation.

  • Health and Medicine in the Jewish Tradition: L'hayyim--to Life

    Type Book
    Author David M Feldman
    Series Health/medicine and the faith traditions
    Place New York
    Publisher Crossroad
    Date 1986
    ISBN 082450707X
    Short Title Health and Medicine in the Jewish Tradition
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BM538.H43
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Abortion
    • Health
    • Marriage
    • Medical ethics
    • Medicine
    • Religious aspects

  • Healing Ministries: Conversations on the Spiritual Dimensions of Health Care

    Type Book
    Author Joseph Henry Fichter
    Place New York
    Publisher Paulist Press
    Date 1986
    ISBN 0809128071
    Short Title Healing Ministries
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BT732
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Health
    • INTERVIEWS
    • MEDICAL personnel
    • Medicine
    • Religious aspects

  • Moving Lines and Variable Criteria: Differences/Connections between Allpathic and Alternative Medicine

    Type Journal Article
    Author Fred M. Frohock
    Abstract The standard narratives of medicine recognize its origins in natural cures and in religious or spiritual discourses. The uneasy relationships of such practices (now designated as complementary or alternative medicine [CAM]) to conventional health care today can be tracked to the formation of medicine as a distinct profession based on modern science. The author accepts four statements as a framework for exploring CAM in the context of modern medicine. The first is that all versions of unconventional medicine depend for their identity on the existence of conventional medicine. The second is that the distinctions between alternative and conventional medicine are variables of time, place, and the attitudes of health care practitioners. Third, CAM today in the West occupies no sharp and distinctive category. There are instead continuums of various slopes and lengths on which types of complementary and alternative medicine are arrayed. Fourth, the turn to CAM may represent a chronic (and, to some, welcome) inclination of the human intellect to delimit the energies of material inquiries with metaphysical baselines and options.
    Publication Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
    Volume 583
    Pages 214-232
    Date Sep., 2002
    ISSN 00027162
    Short Title Moving Lines and Variable Criteria
    URL http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1049698
    Accessed Tue Nov 10 01:19:58 2009
    Library Catalog JSTOR
    Extra ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Global Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Full publication date: Sep., 2002 / Copyright © 2002 American Academy of Political and Social Science
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
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    Notes:

    • The standard narratives of medicine recognize its origins in natural cures and in religious or spiritual discourses. The uneasy relationships of such practices (now designated as complementary or alternative medicine [CAM]) to conventional health care today can be tracked to the formation of medicine as a distinct profession based on modern science. The author accepts four statements as a framework for exploring CAM in the context of modern medicine. The first is that all versions of unconventional medicine depend for their identity on the existence of conventional medicine. The second is that the distinctions between alternative and conventional medicine are variables of time, place, and the attitudes of health care practitioners. Third, CAM today in the West occupies no sharp and distinctive category. There are instead continuums of various slopes and lengths on which types of complementary and alternative medicine are arrayed. Fourth, the turn to CAM may represent a chronic (and, to some, welcome) inclination of the human intellect to delimit the energies of material inquiries with metaphysical baselines and options.

  • Health and Medicine in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition: Faith, Liturgy, and Wholeness

    Type Book
    Author Stanley S Harakas
    Series Health/medicine and the faith traditions
    Place New York
    Publisher Crossroad
    Date 1990
    ISBN 082450934X
    Short Title Health and Medicine in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BX323 .H35 1990
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Health
    • Medicine
    • Religious aspects

  • Naming the silences : God, medicine, and the problem of suffering

    Type Book
    Author Stanley Hauerwas
    Place Grand Rapids Mich.
    Publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans
    Date 1990
    ISBN 9780802804969
    Short Title Naming the silences
    Library Catalog Open WorldCat
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Notes:

    • Hauerwas explores why we so fervently seek explanations for suffering and evil, and he shows how modern medicine has become a god to which we look--in vain--for deliverance from the evils of disease and mortality.

  • Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition: Journey Toward Wholeness

    Type Book
    Author E. Brooks Holifield
    Series Health/medicine and the faith traditions
    Place New York
    Publisher Crossroad
    Date 1986
    ISBN 0824507924
    Short Title Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BX8349.H4
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Doctrines
    • Health
    • Medicine
    • Methodist Church
    • Religious aspects

  • Health, healing, and religion : a cross-cultural perspective

    Type Book
    Author David Kinsley
    Place Upper Saddle River N.J.
    Publisher Prentice Hall
    Date 1996
    ISBN 9780132127714
    Short Title Health, healing, and religion
    Library Catalog Open WorldCat
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
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    Notes:

    • Explicitly dealing with the religious aspects of healing and healers, this unique and intriguing book examines illness, healing, and religion in cross-cultural perspective by looking at how sickness is understood and treated in a wide variety of cultures. Centered around three principle themes, the text: A) illustrates how crucial it is to frame illness in a meaningful context in every culture and how this process is almost always bound up with religious, spiritual, and moral concerns; B) shows how many beliefs, strategies, and practices that characterize traditional cultures also appear in Christianity, putting healing in the Christian tradition in a broad, rational context, and; C) discusses the continuities between traditional, explicitly religious, and modern medical cultures — demonstrating that many features of modern scientific medicine are symbolic and ritualistic, and that many aspects and practices of modern medicine are similar to healing as seen in traditional, pre-scientific medical cultures.

  • Health and Medicine in the Lutheran Tradition: Being Well

    Type Book
    Author Martin E Marty
    Place New York
    Publisher Crossroad
    Date 1983
    ISBN 0824506138
    Short Title Health and Medicine in the Lutheran Tradition
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BX8074.H42
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Doctrines
    • Health
    • Lutheran Church
    • Medicine
    • Religious aspects

  • Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions

    Type Book
    Author Ronald L Numbers
    Author Darrel W Amundsen
    Place New York
    Publisher Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan
    Date 1986
    ISBN 0029192706
    Short Title Caring and Curing
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BL 65.M4 C277 1986
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Religion and Medicine

  • Christian Healing: A Practical and Comprehensive Guide

    Type Book
    Author Mark A Pearson
    Edition 2nd ed
    Place Grand Rapids, Mich
    Publisher Chosen Books
    Date 1995
    ISBN 0800792211
    Short Title Christian Healing
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BT732.5 .P415 1995
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Health
    • Religious aspects
    • Spiritual healing

  • Health and Medicine in the Christian Science Tradition: Principle, Practice, and Challenge

    Type Book
    Author Robert Peel
    Series Health/medicine and the faith traditions
    Place New York
    Publisher Crossroad
    Date 1988
    ISBN 0824508955
    Short Title Health and Medicine in the Christian Science Tradition
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BX6950
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Christian Science
    • Doctrines
    • Health
    • Medicine
    • Religious aspects

  • A Comparison of Christian Science and Mainline Christian Healing Ideologies and Practices

    Type Journal Article
    Author Margaret M. Poloma
    Abstract Within the past decade there has been an increasing interest shown in the practice of spiritual healing. Evidence suggests that a sizeable minority of Americans not only believe in spiritual healing but also that they have personally experienced such a healing. This article empirically explores the differences in ideology and practices of a group of Christian Scientists and another of Mainstream Christians who have experienced a physical healing as a result of prayer. It concludes with a discussion of the future of the two very different streams of the religious healing movement.
    Publication Review of Religious Research
    Volume 32
    Issue 4
    Pages 337-350
    Date Jun., 1991
    ISSN 0034673X
    URL http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3511680
    Accessed Mon Nov 9 00:19:29 2009
    Library Catalog JSTOR
    Extra ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jun., 1991 / Copyright © 1991 Religious Research Association, Inc.
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Notes:

    • Within the past decade there has been an increasing interest shown in the practice of spiritual healing. Evidence suggests that a sizable minority of Americans not only believe in spiritual healing but also that they have personally experienced such a healing. This article empirically explores the differences in ideology and practices of a group of Christian Scientists and another of Mainstream Christians who have experienced a physical healing as a result of prayer. It concludes with a discussion of the future of the two very different streams of the religious healing movement.

  • Transforming Health: Christian Approaches to Healing And Wholeness

    Type Book
    Editor Eric Ram
    Place Monrovia, Calif., U.S.A
    Publisher MARC
    Date 1995
    ISBN 0912552891
    Short Title Transforming Health
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BT732 .T73 1995
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Health
    • HOLISTIC medicine
    • Religious aspects

  • Is homeopathy a science?--Continuity and clash of concepts of science within holistic medicine

    Type Journal Article
    Author Josef M Schmidt
    Abstract The question of whether homeopathy is a science is currently discussed almost exclusively against the background of the modern concept of natural science. This approach, however, fails to notice that homeopathy-in terms of history of science-rests on different roots that can essentially be traced back to two most influential traditions of science: on the one hand, principles and notions of Aristotelism which determined 2,000 years of Western history of science and, on the other hand, the modern concept of natural science that has been dominating the history of medicine for less than 200 years. While Aristotle's "science of the living" still included ontologic and teleologic dimensions for the sake of comprehending nature in a uniform way, the interest of modern natural science was reduced to functional and causal explanations of all phenomena for the purpose of commanding nature. In order to prevent further ecological catastrophes as well as to regain lost dimensions of our lives, the one-sidedness and theory-loadedness of our modern natural-scientific view of life should henceforth be counterbalanced by lifeworld-practical Aristotelic categories. In this way, the ground would be ready to conceive the scientific character of homeopathy-in a broader, Aristotelian sense.
    Publication The Journal of Medical Humanities
    Volume 30
    Issue 2
    Pages 83-97
    Date Jun 2009
    Journal Abbr J Med Humanit
    DOI 10.1007/s10912-009-9080-x
    ISSN 1573-3645
    Short Title Is homeopathy a science?
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19148710
    Accessed Mon Nov 9 00:55:05 2009
    Library Catalog NCBI PubMed
    Extra PMID: 19148710
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Holistic Health
    • Homeopathy
    • Humans
    • Science

    Notes:

    • The question of whether homeopathy is a science is currently discussed almost exclusively against the background of the modern concept of natural science. This approach, however, fails to notice that homeopathy-in terms of history of science-rests on different roots that can essentially be traced back to two most influential traditions of science: on the one hand, principles and notions of Aristotelism which determined 2,000 years of Western history of science and, on the other hand, the modern concept of natural science that has been dominating the history of medicine for less than 200 years. While Aristotle’s “science of the living” still included ontologic and teleologic dimensions for the sake of comprehending nature in a uniform way, the interest of modern natural science was reduced to functional and causal explanations of all phenomena for the purpose of commanding nature. In order to prevent further ecological catastrophes as well as to regain lost dimensions of our lives, the one-sidedness and theory-loadedness of our modern natural-scientific view of life should henceforth be counterbalanced by lifeworld-practical Aristotelic categories. In this way, the ground would be ready to conceive the scientific character of homeopathy-in a broader, Aristotelian sense.

  • Electric Medicine and Mesmerism

    Type Journal Article
    Author Geoffrey Sutton
    Publication Isis
    Volume 72
    Issue 3
    Pages 375-392
    Date Sep., 1981
    ISSN 00211753
    URL http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/230256
    Accessed Tue Nov 10 01:31:02 2009
    Library Catalog JSTOR
    Extra ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Sep., 1981 / Copyright © 1981 The History of Science Society
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

  • Health and Medicine in the Reformed Tradition: Promise, Providence, and Care

    Type Book
    Author Kenneth Vaux
    Place New York
    Publisher Crossroad
    Date 1984
    ISBN 082450612X
    Short Title Health and Medicine in the Reformed Tradition
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BX9423.H43
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

    Tags:

    • Health
    • Medicine
    • Religious aspects

  • ABC of Complementary Medicine: Hypnosis and Relaxation Therapies

    Type Journal Article
    Author Andrew Vickers
    Author Catherine Zollman
    Publication BMJ: British Medical Journal
    Volume 319
    Issue 7221
    Pages 1346-1349
    Date Nov. 20, 1999
    ISSN 09598138
    Short Title ABC of Complementary Medicine
    URL http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186398
    Accessed Mon Nov 9 00:28:23 2009
    Library Catalog JSTOR
    Extra ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Nov. 20, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

  • ABC of Complementary Medicine: Homoeopathy

    Type Journal Article
    Author Andrew Vickers
    Author Catherine Zollman
    Publication BMJ: British Medical Journal
    Volume 319
    Issue 7217
    Pages 1115-1118
    Date Oct. 23, 1999
    ISSN 09598138
    Short Title ABC of Complementary Medicine
    URL http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186167
    Accessed Mon Nov 9 00:27:22 2009
    Library Catalog JSTOR
    Extra ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Oct. 23, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

  • ABC of Complementary Medicine: The Manipulative Therapies: Osteopathy and Chiropractic

    Type Journal Article
    Author Andrew Vickers
    Author Catherine Zollman
    Publication BMJ: British Medical Journal
    Volume 319
    Issue 7218
    Pages 1176-1179
    Date Oct. 30, 1999
    ISSN 09598138
    Short Title ABC of Complementary Medicine
    URL http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186229
    Accessed Mon Nov 9 00:24:10 2009
    Library Catalog JSTOR
    Extra ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Oct. 30, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011

  • ABC of Complementary Medicine: Massage Therapies

    Type Journal Article
    Author Andrew Vickers
    Author Catherine Zollman
    Publication BMJ: British Medical Journal
    Volume 319
    Issue 7219
    Pages 1254-1257
    Date Nov. 6, 1999
    ISSN 09598138
    Short Title ABC of Complementary Medicine
    URL http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186301
    Accessed Mon Nov 9 00:27:53 2009
    Library Catalog JSTOR
    Extra ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Nov. 6, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
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  • Christian Science Healing

    Type Journal Article
    Author Walter I. Wardwell
    Publication Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
    Volume 4
    Issue 2
    Pages 175-181
    Date Spring, 1965
    ISSN 00218294
    URL http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1384135
    Accessed Mon Nov 9 00:17:46 2009
    Library Catalog JSTOR
    Extra ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Spring, 1965 / Copyright © 1965 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
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  • The Christian Science Textbook: An Analysis of the Religious Authority of Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy

    Type Journal Article
    Author David L. Weddle
    Publication The Harvard Theological Review
    Volume 84
    Issue 3
    Pages 273-297
    Date Jul., 1991
    ISSN 00178160
    Short Title The Christian Science Textbook
    URL http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1510020
    Accessed Mon Nov 9 00:21:04 2009
    Library Catalog JSTOR
    Extra ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jul., 1991 / Copyright © 1991 Cambridge University Press and Harvard Divinity School
    Date Added Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011
    Modified Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011