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050 00 $aBX6950$b.S34 2003
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100 1 $aSchoepflin, Rennie B.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001113026
245 10 $aChristian Science on trial :$breligious healing in America /$cRennie B. Schoepflin.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2003.
300 $a301 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aMedicine, science, and religion in historical context
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-292) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tThe World of Christian Science Healers.$g1.$tMary Baker Eddy: Patient, Healer, Teacher.$g2.$tBecoming a Practitioner and Teacher.$g3.$t"Occasions for Hope": Patients and Practitioners.$g4.$tSeparating "True" Scientists from "Pseudo" Scientists --$gPt. 2.$tChristian Science Healers and the World.$g5.$tPhysicians Debate Christian Science.$g6.$tTherapeutic Choice or Religious Liberty?$g7.$tPublic Health and the Protection of Children.$g8.$tCentury of Promise, Then Peril.$gApp.$tCourt Cases Involving Christian Science Practice.
520 1 $a"In Christian Science on Trial, historian Rennie B. Schoepflin shows how Christian Science healing became a viable alternative to medicine at the end of the nineteenth century. Christian Scientists did not simply evangelize for their religious beliefs; they engaged in a healing business that offered a therapeutic alterative to many patients for whom medicine had proven unsatisfactory.
520 8 $aTracing the movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Schoepflin illuminates its struggle for existence against the efforts of organized American medicine to curtail its activities.".
520 8 $a"Physicians' efforts to trivialize and control practitioners of the faith indicated a lack of confidence among the turn-of-the-century medical profession about who controlled American health care. The contested authority of the medical community becomes clear through Schoepflin's examination of the pitched battles fought by physicians and Christian Scientists in America's courtrooms and legislative halls over the legality of Christian Science healing.
520 8 $aWhile the issues of medical licensing, the meaning of medical practice, and the supposed right of Americans to therapeutic choice dominated early debates, later confrontations saw the legal issues shift to matters of contagious disease, public safety, and children's rights. Throughout, Christian Scientists revealed their ambiguous status as medical practitioners and religious healers."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aChristian Science$xHistory.
650 0 $aMedicine$xReligious aspects$xChristian Science$xHistory.
650 0 $aMedical care$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107272
830 0 $aMedicine, science, and religion in historical context.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001113020
852 00 $bglx$hBX6950$i.S34 2003
852 00 $bbar$hBX6950$i.S34 2003