Science, Religion, and the Human Experience

14 Uneasy Alliances: The Faith Factor in Medicine; the Health Factor in Religion Anne Harrington What does medicine have to do w ...

288 mind tations on his experience with the world of high-tech health care that seemed to many to get to the heart of the matter ...

uneasy alliances 289 The argument is new, but, in the span of a few short years, it has begun to eclipse the others. With more t ...

290 mind medical and behavioral sciences, and each with a more or less intimate or distant relationship to one or another religi ...

uneasy alliances 291 which individuals seek medical assistance earlier than they otherwise might have. Nevertheless, not everyon ...

292 mind cultivated the existence of this endogenous stress-buster each of us has inside ourselves: the relaxation response. Beg ...

uneasy alliances 293 I describe “God” with a capital “G” in this book but nevertheless hope readers will understand that I am re ...

294 mind specific faith tradition in order to enjoy the healing fruits of faith. This quasi- secularization of the healing power ...

uneasy alliances 295 Prayer Works The idea that one might be able to explain religious faith healings by reference to the secula ...

296 mind table14.1 Mean Age Attained by Males of Various Classes Who Had Survived Their 30th Year, from 1758 to 1843 In Number A ...

uneasy alliances 297 controls, and the controls did not do better than the prayed-for groups on any of the measures.^28 In 1999, ...

298 mind giving people the health benefits they want. Though the argument rarely is so explicit as to actually say so, what we a ...

uneasy alliances 299 of scientific data but in authority that draws on the force of certain ethical and existential commitments. ...

300 mind What seems instead more likely is that the same utilitarian therapeutic criteria will be used to judge the value of pra ...

uneasy alliances 301 A lot of the scholarly arguments in this vein over the past two decades have come from medical anthropolog ...

302 mind “Mortality in 11 secular kibbutzim between 1970 and 1985 was nearly twice that of 11 matched religious kibbutzim....Th ...

uneasy alliances 303 For a good biography of Peale, see Carol V. R. George,God’s Salesman: Nor- man Vincent Peale and the Power ...

304 mind 1997, D1–2. Ironically, Dale Matthews’s own widely anticipated study investigating the power of intercessory prayer at ...

uneasy alliances 305 metabolic Changes of the Relaxation Response.”Psychosomatic Medicine 36 (1974): 115–120. Benson, Herbert (w ...

306 mind the Placebo Response.”Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Psychology, edited by Lars Backman and Claes vo ...