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02821aam a2200337 i 4500 001 E3A87608065511E8AD8CF06897128E48 003 SILO 005 20180131010242 008 130604s2014 mdu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013015237 020 $a 1421412160 020 $a 9781421412160 020 $a 1421412152 020 $a 9781421412153 035 $a (OCoLC)848267162 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d BDX $d CDX $d HF9 $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a BL65.M4 $b F47 2014 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification/BL1-BL2790 082 00 $a 201/.661 $2 23 100 1 $a Ferngren, Gary B., $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00092442 245 10 $a Medicine and religion : $b a historical introduction / $c Gary B. Ferngren. 264 1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2014. 300 $a xii, 241 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Ancient Near East -- Greece -- Rome -- Early Christianity -- The Middle Ages -- Islam in the Middle Ages, with Mahdieh Tavakol -- The Early Modern Period -- The Nineteeth and Twentieth Centuries -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index 520 $a Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian Gary B. Ferngren describes how the polytheistic religions of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and the monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have complemented medicine in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Ferngren paints a broad and detailed portrait of how humans throughout the ages have drawn on specific values of diverse religious traditions in caring for the body. Religious perspectives have informed both the treatment of disease and the provision of health care. And, while tensions have sometimes existed, relations between medicine and religion have often been cooperative and mutually beneficial. Religious beliefs provided a framework for explaining disease and suffering that was larger than medicine alone could offer. These beliefs furnished a theological basis for a compassionate care of the sick that led to the creation of the hospital and a long tradition of charitable medicine. -- Back cover. 650 0 $a Medicine $x Religious aspects. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083091 650 7 $a Medicine $x Religious aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01015038 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213014553.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E3A87608065511E8AD8CF06897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search