When prayer fails : faith healing, children, and the law /
Relying on religious traditions that are as old as their faith itself, many devout Christians turn to prayer rather than medicine when their children fall victim to illness or injury. Faith healers claim that their practices are effective in restoring health ---- more effective, they say, than moder...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- "Pointless and preventable" : an overview of religion-based medical neglect of children
- "Are any among you sick?" : the tradition of spiritual healing
- - "Defended by the Lord Jehovah" : the peculiar people in the British courts
- "The horriblest thing I ever saw" : early religion-based medical-neglect cases in the United States
- "Does the science kill a patient here and there?" Christian Science, healing, and the law
- "The pain has no right to exist" : contemporary Christian Scientists in the courts
- "Nightmare would not be too strong a term" : life and death in the Faith Tabernacle
- "This ain't religion" : spiritual healing and reproductive rights
- "God can't cure everyone" : spiritual healing on trial in Oregon
- "We need to change the statute" : the promise (and limits) of statutory reform.