Christian Science on trial : religious healing in America / Rennie B. Schoepflin.

  • Schoepflin, Rennie B.
Date:
2003
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Physical description

301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Contents

The world of Christian Science healers. Mary Baker Eddy: patient, healer, teacher -- Becoming a practitioner and teacher -- "Occasions for hope": patients and practitioners -- Separating "true" Scientists from "pseudo" Scientists -- Christian Science healers and the world. Physicians debate Christian Science -- Therapeutic choice or religious liberty? -- Public health and the protection of children -- Century of promise, then peril.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-292) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CDQ.6
    		Open shelves

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  • 0801870577