Medicine, religion, and the body [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White

• Pubblicazione: Leiden [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 201/.661
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - Religious aspects; Human body - Religious aspects
• Altri autori: ColemanElizabeth Burns <1961-> WhiteKevin, Ph. D.
• Note generali: "Many of the chapters in this volume were presented at the conference 'Negotiating the Sacred : Medicine, Religion and The Body' held in the Centre for Cross Cultural Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra in 2006."--P.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Section 1. The social and spiritual body -- Section 2. Negotiating medicine, healing and religious belief -- pt. 3. Virtue, health and the state.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 the body raise cross cultural issues of great complexity – philosophically and theologically, as well as sociologically - within medicine and for health care practitioners, but also, as a matter of primary concern for the patient. The book explores the ways in which medicine organises the moral and the immoral, the sacred and the profane; how it mediates cultural concepts of the sacred – of the body, of blood and of life and death.
• Titolo autorizzato: Medicine, religion, and the body
• ISBN: 1-282-95116-5; 9786612951169; 90-474-4400-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785668003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International studies in religion and society ; ; 11.