Medicine, religion, and the body

Preliminary Material /E. Burns Coleman and K. White -- The Meanings Of Health And Illness: Medicine, Religion And The Body /Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White -- Chapter One. Contested Sites: Aboriginal Health And Healers Engaging Western Medicine /Brian F. McCoy -- Chapter Two. The 'Religionated' Body: Fatwas And Body Parts /Roxanne D. Marcotte -- Chapter Three. The Body And The World In Buddhism /Peter G. Friedlander -- Chapter Four. Subtle Anatomy: The Bio-Metaphysics Of Alternative Therapies /Jay Johnston -- Chapter Five. Piety, Prolongevity And Perpetuity: The Consequences Of Living Forever /Bryan S. Turner -- Chapter Six. 'Pity And Also Horror': Public Mourning, Breast Cancer, And A French Queen /Thérèse Taylor -- Chapter Seven. Spiritual Boundary Work: How Spiritual Healers And Medical Clairvoyants Negotiate The Sacred /Ruth Barcan -- Chapter Eight. Moments Of Grace And Blessing: Rites And Rituals In The Process Of Healing /Roy J. O'Neill -- Chapter Nine. Limitations In Death: Negotiating Sentiment And Science In The Case Of The Hospital Autopsy /Philomena Horsley -- Chapter Ten. The Care Of The Body /Jeremy Shearmur -- Chapter Eleven. Deadly Sin: Gluttony, Obesity And Health Policy /William James Hoverd -- Chapter Twelve. Painful Paradoxes: Consumption, Sacrifice And Man-Building In The Age Of Nationalism /Christopher E. Forth -- Chapter Thirteen. Freezing Sacred Man: Myth, Philosophy, And Medicine's Practice Of Curing Undesirables /Peter Arnds -- Bibliography /E. Burns Coleman and K. White -- Index /E. Burns Coleman and K. White.