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  2. Handbook of Religion and Health - Wikipedia

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    Reviews and discussions have appeared in The New Yorker, [1] Freethought Today, [2] First Things, [3] Journal of the American Medical Association, [4] The Gerontologist, [5] the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, [6] Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, [7] The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, [8] Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, [9] Journal of ...

  3. Religion and health - Wikipedia

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    Kenneth Pargament is a major contributor to the theory of how individuals may use religion as a resource in coping with stress, His work seems to show the influence of attribution theory. Additional evidence suggests that this relationship between religion and physical health may be causal. [19] Religion may reduce likelihood of certain diseases.

  4. Religio Medici - Wikipedia

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    The book strongly influenced the prominent physician William Osler in his early years. Osler, who is considered the "father of modern medicine", is said to have learned it by heart. [10] In Virginia Woolf's opinion Religio Medici paved the way for all future confessionals, private memoirs and personal writings.

  5. Catholic Church and health care - Wikipedia

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    Catholic religious have been responsible for founding and running networks of hospitals across the world where medical research continues to be advanced. [28] In 2013, Robert Calderisi wrote that the Catholic Church has around 18,000 clinics, 16,000 homes for the elderly and those with special needs, and 5,500 hospitals – with 65 per cent of ...

  6. Medical anthropology - Wikipedia

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    Medical anthropology studies "human ... the ways in which culture and society are organized around or influenced by issues of ... or religious differences, or from ...

  7. Religion and drugs - Wikipedia

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    The primary advocate of a religious use of cannabis plant in early Judaism was Sula Benet (1967), who claimed that the plant kaneh bosm קְנֵה-בֹשֶׂם mentioned five times in the Hebrew Bible, and used in the holy anointing oil of the Book of Exodus, was in fact cannabis, [68] although lexicons of Hebrew and dictionaries of plants of ...

  8. Medicine in the medieval Islamic world - Wikipedia

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    Avicenna's medicine became the representative of Islamic medicine mainly through the influence of his famous work al-Canon fi al Tibb (The Canon of Medicine). [65] The book was originally used as a textbook for instructors and students of medical sciences in the medical school of Avicenna. [65]

  9. Relationship between religion and science - Wikipedia

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    In terms of religion and science, 85% of evangelical scientists saw no conflict (73% collaboration, 12% independence), while 75% of the whole scientific population saw no conflict (40% collaboration, 35% independence). [232] Religious beliefs of US professors were examined using a nationally representative sample of more than 1,400 professors.