Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet will be the first title published in the new Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which

"[This] Multi-disciplinary approach provides a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between spirituality, religion, and medicine" -- Provided by the pub

Explores the interplay of medicine and religion in Western societies. Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship betwee

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 autop

The purpose of this treatise is: 1) to draw attention to the presence of situations arising within medical practice in which religious beliefs play an important