What were old women presumed to know about medicine, and why was it always old women? Alongside the trope of…
Do old women know medicine?
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Capturing spirituality
The album below brings together some of the "photographs" of spirituality that the medical sciences have produced. Each photograph of…
The spiritual politics of healing
Debates regarding health care have struck at the core of social and political imaginaries of what it means for both…
Explaining the plague
At the Times Literary Supplement, Lauro Martines reviews Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance, a…
A more holistic approach to faith and health
In an opinion piece at The Christian Science Monitor, sociologist Wendy Cadge shares findings from her research (with Elaine Howard…
Medical materialism revisited
A century ago, in "Religion and Neurology," the opening chapter of The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James argued against…
The new universalism
There is a sense among those who are watching that the ground is shifting in U.S. constitutional jurisprudence with respect…