Religion and Healing the Mind/Body/Self

Religion and Healing the Mind/Body/Self

Spirituality, religion, and pediatrics: intersecting worlds of healing.

Religious practices such as prayer represent the most prevalent complementary and alternative therapies in the United States. However, biomedicine has sometimes viewed faith and related religious worldviews as relevant only when they obstruct implementation of scientifically sound biomedical care. Recent efforts to arrive at a new synthesis raise challenges for pediatricians. This article revie...

study the effects of low level laser diode on no production and healing of diabetic and cortisone acetate and normal wounded sd rats

nitric oxide (no) is a small molecule synthesized by most of mammalian cells with diverse biological activities including vasodilatation, host defense and wound healing. impaired wound healing is a common occurrence among diabetics and patients receiving glucocorticoid therapy. on the other hand the application of laser in biomedical area have been increased. thus, the current studies were desi...

Eye on religion: a Jewish view on miracles of healing.

Jewish tradition understands a miracle as a wonder that manifests God’s beneficent power. A miracle (nes in Hebrew) could be supernatural, but it need not be. While God has the ability to act in a manner that goes against the “orders of creation” (sidrei breishit) that He has established, the regularity of this order itself wondrously manifests God’s beneficent power. A central goal of Judaism ...

The task of healing: medicine, religion and gender in England and the Netherlands, 1450–1800

of them specifically for the volume, to fill in gaps such as "trends in mortality in the twentieth century", and "disease as a social concept". The work contains articles on the history of public health, changes in the health care professions, the structure of health care organizations, mental illness, financing medical care, and ethical issues. Particularly relevant to contemporary student int...