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Faith Healing and Modern Medicine

By Paul A. Offit

Thousands of Americans choose faith healings over medical intervention every day, for themselves and for their children. When does a country that prides itself on freedom of religion declare that public health trumps personal belief?

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Prayer, Faith, and Healing: Cure Your Body, Heal Your Mind and Restore Your Soul

When you're physically sick, when you're emotionally ill, your first thought usually is to turn to a doctor, take a pill, let modern medicine make it all go away. But as a growing body of scientific evidence shows, the best cure may lie in prayer, faith, and your relationship with God.

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Kenneth Winston Caine, Brian Paul Kaufman, Bernie S. Siegel
1999
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In Traditional South African Healing, the Physical, Spiritual, and Ancestral Worlds Come Together as One

See how urban healers are drawing on a practice shrouded in secrecy and combining it with modern medicine.

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2017
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The Spiritual Healer Providing Alternative Forms of Medicine | Our Life

This close look at forms of alternative medicine - spiritual healing and psychic healing - includes interviews with healers and their patients and orthodox medical doctors.

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2021
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Rohingya Faith Healers: Refugees Try Modern Medicine for Health Issues

In some parts of the world health care is often only available from faith healers. But in Bangladesh, the traditional practices of the Rohingya refugees are slowly giving way to modern medicine. Mhairi Beveridge explains.

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2018
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When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law

When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law is the first book to fully examine the complex web of legal and ethical questions that arise when criminal prosecutions are mounted against parents whose children die as a result of the phenomenon known by experts as religion-based medical...

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Shawn Francis Peters
2007
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Folk Religion of the Pennsylvania Dutch: Witchcraft, Faith Healing and Related Practices

For almost three centuries, the "Pennsylvania Dutch"--descended from German immigrants--have practiced white magic, known in their dialect as Braucherei (from the German "brauchen," to use) or Powwowing.

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Richard LT Orth
2018
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The Healing Touch: Indigenous Healers Getting Results

Can 40,000-year-old healing methods solve 21st-century illnesses?

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2018
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Divinity Course and General Collectanea

Read the book Practitioners and Teachers have utilized in their healing practices for fifty years.

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Mary Baker Eddy
2006
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Mary Baker Eddy

In 1866, a frail, impoverished invalid, middle-aged, widowed and divorced, rose from her bed after a life-threatening fall, asked for her Bible, and took the first steps toward the founding of the Christian Science Church.

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Gillian Gill
1999
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The Healer: The Healing Work of Mary Baker Eddy

Over 300 awe-inspiring accounts of Christian healing by the most accomplished spiritual healer since the Master, Mary Baker Eddy. Mary Baker Eddy expressed such great love and dominion through her understanding of God's Love for man that it enabled her to, "...

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David L. Keyston
2007
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