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Healing words : the power of prayer and the practice of medicine / Larry Dossey.
LIBRA BL65.M4 D67 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dossey, Larry, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Healing--Religious aspects.
- Healing.
- Prayer.
- Religion and Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Religion and Medicine.
- Local Subjects:
- Prayer.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- regular print
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, [1993]
- Summary:
- A study of the relationship between prayer and healing.
- Contents:
- Understanding prayer and healing
- Saints and sinners, health and illness
- Reach of the mind: setting the stage for prayer
- Factors influencing the efficacy of prayer
- Prayer and the unconscious mind
- Where do prayers go?
- How to pray and what to pray for
- Love and healing
- Time-displaced prayer: when prayers are answered before they are made
- Your doctor's beliefs and why they matter
- When prayer hurts: an inquiry into "black prayer"
- Evidence
- God in the laboratory
- Prayer and healing: reviewing the research
- What is healing?
- Controlled experimental trials of healing
- Spontaneous regression of cancer
- How good is the evidence? Prayer, meditation and parapsychology
- Healing and the mind: a summing up.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and index.
- APPE gift.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dossey, Larry, 1940- Healing words.
- ISBN:
- 0062502514
- 9780062502513
- 0062502522
- 9780062502520
- 0062510223
- 9780062510228
- OCLC:
- 27976973
- Online:
- Publisher description
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