Caring and Curing or Shopping as an Entertainment Experience

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

Author: Ronald L Numbers

Most religious traditions have a rich, if largely forgotten, heritage of involvement in medical issues of life, death, and health. Religious values influence our behavior and attitudes toward sickness, sexuality, and lifestyle, to say nothing of more controversial subjects such as abortion and euthanasia. The essays in this important book illuminate the history of health and medicine within the Judeo-Christian tradition. Bringing together 20 original articles by expert scholars in the fields of the history of religion and the history of medicine, Caring and Curing provides a fascinating and enlightening overview of how religious values have come to affect the practice of medicine and medical care.

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In this reprint of 20 articles originally published in 1986, scholars of the history of religion and the history of medicine "diagnose" the influence of diverse Judeo-Christian traditions on medical practice<- ->regarding cultural and ethical views about illness, beginning and end of life issues. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Interesting textbook: Born to the Mob or Mr Lincoln Goes to War

Shopping as an Entertainment Experience

Author: Mark Howard Moss

iShopping as an Entertainment Experiencei explores the ways in which shopping has become a significant entertainment feature in our daily lives. Dr. Mark H. Moss examines the mall, the e-store, and the department store to demonstrate how shopping is often the most common leisure experience that people indulge in to occupy themselves.