Prescribing faith : medicine, media, and religion in American culture /

Prescribing faith : medicine, media, and religion in American culture / Claire Hoertz Badaracco.

The healing powers of medicine and prayer are often media headlines. Not explored is how media itself has shaped popular ideas about religion and health. Prescribing Faith traces the confluence of medicine, media and religion from mid-nineteenth century American culture to the present day. Badaracco...

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Main Author: Badaracco, Claire.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Alternative medicine > United States > History.
Spiritual healing > United States > History.
Mass media > Religious aspects.
Health in mass media.
History, 21st Century.
Mass Media > history.
Religion and Medicine.
Spiritual Therapies > history.
History, 20th Century.
Complementary Therapies > history.
History, 19th Century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.

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Call Number: BL65.M4 B33 2007eb

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