Download PDF: Taylor RV, Healthcare As A Social Good By David M. Craig Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014. 280 pages. $29.95 In his 2014 book, Health Care as a Social Good: Religious Values and American Democracy, David M. Craig argues
Download PDF: Varley Introduction To an increasing degree, ethnographic accounts of childbirth in South Asia examine how clinical facilities, and Labor Rooms in particular, operate at the interstices of mutually exclusive belief sets: one grounded in modes of authoritative
Download PDF: Lori Carter-Edwards Introduction1 She sits in a chair in an examination room with her tie-back gown on, patiently waiting for the physician to come back to the room to relay the results of her mammogram. She had
Download PDF: Blevins_and_Toler Introduction While there are numerous opportunities to develop new paradigms and shift existing ones in interdisciplinary research in religion and health, there are also challenges involved in such work. One key challenge presents itself immediately in this
Download PDF: Blevins and Toler, Something to Prove? Introduction While there are numerous opportunities to develop new paradigms and shift existing ones in interdisciplinary research in religion and health, there are also challenges involved in such work. One key challenge presents
Download PDF: Cochrane, Language that Difference Makes ABSTRACT The attempt to think about “religion and health” together as if they were wholly disjunct concepts falters in many contexts, both because the practices of health seekers often pragmatically assimilate them and
Download PDF: New Geographies of Religion and Healing: States of the Field, Linda L. Barnes Introduction I take my title from a classic essay by T. J. Hinrichs who, over a decade ago, mapped critical developments in her own field,
Download PDF: Editorial Issue 4 Introduction The authors and creators of the pieces in this issue address a wide variety of health-related topics that sit at the intersections of religion, health, and healing work. These include HIV/AIDS, disability, women’s reproductive health,