An edition of Prescribing Faith (2007)
Prescribing Faith
Medicine, Media and Religion in American Culture
By Claire Hoertz Badaracco
Publish Date
October 1, 2007
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Language
eng
Pages
295
Description:
Overview: The healing powers of medicine and prayer are often media headlines. Not explored is how media itself has shaped popular ideas about religion and health. Prescribing Faith traces the confluence of medicine, media and religion from mid-nineteenth century American culture to the present day. Badaracco examines how media portrays the relationship between religious faith and medicine, showing that the relationship is one fraught with conflict of interest, controversy, and paradox. Prescribing Faith offers valuable insight into deconstructing religion and medicine as shaped by today's media.
subjects: History, 21st Century, Religion and Medicine, Religious aspects, Geistheilung, Christianity, Gaia & Earth Energies, Spiritual Therapies, Mass media, Medicine, Complementary Therapies, History, 20th Century, Health in mass media, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT, Alternative medicine, Massenmedien, Wissenschaftlichkeit, General, RELIGION, History, 19th Century, Spiritual healing, Kurpfuscherei, History, Medicine, religious aspects, Mass media, religious aspects