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The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health, Paperback / softback Book

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health Paperback / softback

Edited by Dorothea (University of Zurich) Luddeckens, Philipp Hetmanczyk, Pamela E. Klassen, Justin B. (no payment details supplied by editorial) Stein

Part of the Routledge Handbooks in Religion series

Paperback / softback

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The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary, and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today.

While many of these debates revolve around the biomedical legitimacy of religious modes of healing, the market for them continues to grow.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind.

Comprising over thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into five parts:Healing practices with religious roots and framesReligious actors in and around the medical fieldOrganizing infrastructures of religion and medicine: pluralism and competitionBoundary-making between religion and medicineReligion and epidemicsWithin these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including health and healing, religiosity, spirituality, biomedicine, medicalization, complementary medicine, medical therapy, efficacy, agency, and the nexus of body, mind, and spirit. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies.

The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, anthropology, and medicine.

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