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Christian Science on Trial : Religious Healing in America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (314 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801877674
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Christian Science on TrialDDC classification:
  • 289.573
LOC classification:
  • BX6950.S34 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 The World of Christian Science Healers -- 1 Mary Baker Eddy -- 2 Becoming a Practitioner and Teacher -- 3 ''Occasions for Hope'' -- 4 Separating ''True'' Scientists from ''Pseudo'' Scientists -- PART 2 Christian Science Healers and the World -- 5 Physicians Debate Christian Science -- 6 Therapeutic Choice or Religious Liberty? -- 7 Public Health and the Protection of Children -- 8 Century of Promise, Then Peril -- Appendix -- Notes -- Archives Consulted -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index.
Summary: "Clearly written and well argued, Schoepflin's excellent study moves beyond the prescriptive literature-focused and Eddy-centered scholarship to show what practitioners and their patients did and thought near the turn of the century." -- Choice.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 The World of Christian Science Healers -- 1 Mary Baker Eddy -- 2 Becoming a Practitioner and Teacher -- 3 ''Occasions for Hope'' -- 4 Separating ''True'' Scientists from ''Pseudo'' Scientists -- PART 2 Christian Science Healers and the World -- 5 Physicians Debate Christian Science -- 6 Therapeutic Choice or Religious Liberty? -- 7 Public Health and the Protection of Children -- 8 Century of Promise, Then Peril -- Appendix -- Notes -- Archives Consulted -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index.

"Clearly written and well argued, Schoepflin's excellent study moves beyond the prescriptive literature-focused and Eddy-centered scholarship to show what practitioners and their patients did and thought near the turn of the century." -- Choice.

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