Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion

Gary B. Ferngren, Ekaterina N. Lomperis (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2017
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4214-2290-9 (ISBN)

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Gary B. Ferngren and Ekaterina N. Lomperis have gathered a rich collection of annotated primary sources that illustrate the intersection of medicine and religion. Intended as a companion volume to Ferngren's classic Medicine and Religion, which traces the history of the relationship of medicine to religion in the Western world from the earliest ancient Near Eastern societies to the twenty-first century, this useful and extensive sourcebook places each key document in historical context. Drawing from more than 160 texts, the book explores a number of themes, including concepts of health, the causes and cure of disease, medical ethics, theodicy, beneficence, religious healing, consolation, and death and dying. Each chapter begins with an introduction that furnishes a basic historical setting for the period covered. Modern translations, some of which have been made especially for this volume, are used whenever possible. The texts are numbered sequentially within each chapter and preceded by a short introduction to both the author and the subject.
Touching on Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, Greece, Rome, the European Middle Ages, Islam, early modern Europe, and the modern era, Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion brings a wide range of sources together to expand on the crucial lessons of Medicine and Religion. This book is a useful introduction for all students of history, divinity, medicine, and health.

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.

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Ancient Near East
Introduction
Texts
2. Greece
Introduction
Texts
3. Rome
Introduction
Texts
4. Early Christianity
Introduction
Texts
5. The Middle Ages
Introduction
Texts
6. Islam, by M.A. Mujeeb Khan
Introduction
Texts
7. The Early Modern Period
Introduction
Texts
8. The Nineteenth through the Twenty-First Centuries
Introduction
Text
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.10.2017
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-4214-2290-5 / 1421422905
ISBN-13	978-1-4214-2290-9 / 9781421422909
Zustand	Neuware