American Medicine as Religious Practice: Care of the Sick as a Sacred Obligation and the Unholy Descent into Secularization
Modern medicine serves a religious function for modern Americans as a conduit through which science can be applied directly to the human body. The first half of this paper will focus on the theoretical foundations for viewing medicine as a religious practice arguing that just as a hierarchical struc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2011]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2011, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 62-74 |
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Biomedicine
B symbolic meaning B Enlightenment B Religion |
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