Table of Contents (TOC)

PART ONE: RELIGION AND HEALTH, YESTERDAY AND TODAY

1: Introduction
2: Religion and Medicine in History
3: From Sputnik to Angels: Science, Subjectivity, and that Rise of
    Irrationalism
4: Why Now?

PART TWO: READING THE EVIDENCE

5: Are there Really So Many Studies on Religion and Health?
6: How Good Is the Evidence?
7: Is there Really a Health Advantage to the Religiously Active?
8: Attendance at Services and Mortality
9: Why Long-Distance Healing Doesn’t Have a Prayer

PART THREE: RELIGION AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE

10: Ethical Problems
11: Is It Practical to Bring Religion into Medicine?
12: Is there Really a Demand for Bringing Religion into Medicine?
13: Trivializing the Transcendent: Be Careful What You Wish For?

PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS:

14: Religion and Medicine: Hope or Hype?