Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion

by Gary B. Ferngren, Ekaterina N. Lomperis

Overview

Gary B. Ferngren and Ekaterina N. Lomperis have gathered a rich collection of annotated primary sources that illustrate the intersection of medicine and religion. Intended as a companion volume to Ferngren’s classic Medicine and Religion, which traces the history of the relationship of medicine to religion in the Western world from the earliest ancient Near Eastern societies to the twenty-first century, this useful and extensive sourcebook places each key document in historical context.

Drawing from more than 160 texts, the book explores a number of themes, including concepts of health, the causes and cure of disease, medical ethics, theodicy, beneficence, religious healing, consolation, and death and dying. Each chapter begins with an introduction that furnishes a basic historical setting for the period covered. Modern translations, some of which have been made especially for this volume, are used whenever possible. The texts are numbered sequentially within each chapter and preceded by a short introduction to both the author and the subject.

Touching on Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, Greece, Rome, the European Middle Ages, Islam, early modern Europe, and the modern era, Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion brings a wide range of sources together to expand on the crucial lessons of Medicine and Religion. This book is a useful introduction for all students of history, divinity, medicine, and health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421422916
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	195,031
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and a professor of the history of medicine at First Moscow State Medical University. He is the author of Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction, Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction, and Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity. Ekaterina N. Lomperis is a PhD candidate in theology at the University of Chicago and a junior fellow at the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.

Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University, editor of Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction, and author of Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Ancient Near East
Introduction
Texts
2. Greece
Introduction
Texts
3. Rome
Introduction
Texts
4. Early Christianity
Introduction
Texts
5. The Middle Ages
Introduction
Texts
6. Islam, by M.A. Mujeeb Khan
Introduction
Texts
7. The Early Modern Period
Introduction
Texts
8. The Nineteenth through the Twenty-First Centuries
Introduction
Text
Select Bibliography
Index