Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America

by Candy Gunther Brown

Book Overview

The question typically asked about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is whether it works. However, an issue of equal or greater significance is why it is supposed to work. The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America explains how and why CAM entered the American biomedical mainstream and won cultural acceptance, even among evangelical and other theologically conservative Christians, despite its ties to non-Christian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199985782
• ISBN13: 9780199985784
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"