Medicine, religion, and the body /

This book explores the ways in which the body is sacred in Western medicine, as well as how this idea is played out in questions of life and death, of the autopsy and of the meanings attributed to illnesses and disease. Ritual and religious modifications to, and limitations on what may be done to th...

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Other Authors: Coleman, Elizabeth Burns, 1961-, White, Kevin, PhD.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Series: International Studies in Religion and Society 11.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004223103.

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Medicine > Religious aspects.

Human body > Religious aspects.

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