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Christian Science on trial : religious healing in America / Rennie B. Schoepflin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schoepflin, Rennie B.
- Series:
- Medicine, science, and religion in historical context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian Science--History.
- Christian Science.
- Medicine--Religious aspects--Christian Science--History.
- Medicine.
- Medical care--Law and legislation--United States.
- Medical care.
- Medical care--Law and legislation.
- Medicine--Religious aspects--Christian Science.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- "Clearly written and well argued, Schoepflin's excellent study moves beyond the prescriptive literature-focused and Eddy-centered scholarship to show what practitioners and their patients did and thought near the turn of the century." -- Choice
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801870577
- OCLC:
- 48691371
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