Medicine, religion, and the body
This book explores the ways in which the body is sacred in Western medicine, as well as how this idea is played out in questions of life and death, of the autopsy and of the meanings attributed to illnesses and disease. Ritual and religious modifications to, and limitations on what may be done to th...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston :
Brill,
2010
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | International studies in religion and society ;
11 |
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