Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions

by Ronald L. Numbers

Book Overview

A fascinating and enlightening overview of how religious values have come to affect the practice of medicine and medical care. Most religious traditions have a rich, if largely forgotten, heritage of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029192706
• ISBN13: 9780029192702
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 601 Pages
• Weight: 2.38 lbs.