Description
This useful, well-edited anthology of important texts in the history of the intersection of religion and medicine will serve as a valuable resource to future religious leaders, clinicians, and scholars. -- Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD, Duke University Medical Center and Duke Divinity School An excellent supplement for students which will enhance the narrative of Ferngren's Medicine and Religion. Instructors will be grateful for the care and expertise with which the wide variety of selections has been compiled and informed. -- Michael A. Flannery, author of Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy
About the Author
Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and a professor of the history of medicine at First Moscow State Medical University. He is the author of Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction, Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction, and Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity. Ekaterina N. Lomperis is a PhD candidate in theology at the University of Chicago and a junior fellow at the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.
Reviews
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the relationship between faith and medicine as it stretches across human existence.
-John F. Pohl, MD, University of Utah, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
Book Information
ISBN 9781421422909
Author Gary B. Ferngren
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm