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Prescribing Faith: Medicine, Media, and Religion in American Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781932792898)
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Claire Hoertz Badaracco
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xThe healing powers of medicine and prayer are often media headlines. Not explored is how media itself has shaped popular ideas about religion and health. Prescribing Faith traces the confluence of medicine, media and religion from mid-nineteenth century American culture to the present day. Badaracco examines how media portrays the relationship between religious faith and medicine, showing that the relationship is one fraught with conflict of interest, controversy, and paradox. Prescribing Faith offers valuable insight into deconstructing religion and medicine as shaped by today's media.
Author: Claire Hoertz Badaracco
ISBN-10: 1932792899
ISBN-13: 9781932792898
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.08w x 0.73d
Award: IndieFab awards - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/23/2007 pg. 63
Choice 02/01/2008 pg. 1192
By Claire Hoertz Badaracco
xClaire Hoertz Badaracco (Ph. D. Rutgers) is Full Professor in the College of Communication, Marquette University. She is the editor of Quoting God: How Media Shape Ideas about Religion and Culture (Baylor University Press, 2005), Trading Words: Poetry, Typography, and Illustrated Books in the Modern Literary Economy (1995) and American Culture and the Marketplace (1992).
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