When prayer fails : faith healing, children, and the law / Shawn Francis Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, Shawn Francis, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child health services--Law and legislation--United States.

Child health services.

Spiritual healing--Law and legislation--United States.

Spiritual healing.

Freedom of religion--United States.

Freedom of religion.

Spiritual healing--Law and legislation.

Child health services--Law and legislation.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 262 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Faith healing, children, and the law

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Contents:

"Pointless and preventable" : an overview of religion-based medical neglect of children

"Are any among you sick?" : the tradition of spiritual healing

- "Defended by the Lord Jehovah" : the peculiar people in the British courts

"The horriblest thing I ever saw" : early religion-based medical-neglect cases in the United States

"Does the science kill a parent here and there?" Christian Science, healing, and the law

"The pain has no right to exist" : contemporary Christian Scientists in the courts

"Nightmare would not be too strong a term" : life and death in the Faith Tabernacle

"This ain't religion" : spiritual healing and reproductive rights

"God can't cure everyone" : spiritual healing on trial in Oregon

"We need to change the statute" : the promise (and limits) of statutory reform.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-254) and index.

ISBN:

9780195306354

019530635X

OCLC:

77574617