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Faith healers, myths and deaths
Medico-Legal Journal, 2015Science and myth have been closely linked and argued upon by philosophers, educationalists, scientists, enthusiasts and the general public. Faith healing, when added as an adjuvant or alternative aid to medical science, will not necessarily be confined to mere arguments and debates but may also give rise to series of complications, medical emergencies
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Magician accuses faith healers of hoax
Journal of Religion & Health, 1987Discussions of faith healing have traditionally focused on the persuasiveness of the healer and the receptivity of the audience. Recently magician James Randi investigated popular American faith healers and accused them of deliberate fraud. The deceptions he identified are those used for many years by fraudulent mediums and psychics. This paper reviews
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The Faith Healers: [Commentary]
Law & Social Inquiry, 1992I suppose I should be flattered that, in a work which is ostensibly a review of Mark Kelman's Guide to Critical Legal Studies, Professor Fischl devotes the bulk of his analytical efforts to sustained attack on my earlier review of Kelman's book.1 After all, as the adage has it, never mind what they say about you so long as they are talking about you. I
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Ghanaian traditional and faith healers' explanatory models for epilepsy
Epilepsy & Behavior, 2018Epilepsy is the most common neurological condition in sub-Saharan Africa. A significant number of people with epilepsy in low- and middle-income countries do not receive formal biomedical care. They utilize the services of various traditional and alternative medicine practitioners.
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Faith Versus the Law: Traditional Healers and Immigration
Journal of Immigrant Health, 1999In the United States, as well as other industrialized nations, nontraditional medical treatments are viewed at best with skepticism, and at worst as a fraud. The common observer would think that there is little connection between fights over what constitutes medical treatment and immigration laws.
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Faith Healers and Physicians — Teaching Pseudoscience by Mandate
New England Journal of Medicine, 2005The intelligent design movement has attracted much support. Acquiescing to this anti-science movement, writes Dr. Robert Schwartz, would have far-reaching consequences for the development of future generations of physicians, for the likelihood of discovering new therapies, and for understanding health and disease.
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2015
An insightful read for anyone who is interested in religion, this book offers fresh, biblical insight into the preaching of faith healing from a Christian perspective. Faith healing has been a popular religious phenomenon in this country for well over a hundred years, gaining thousands of followers and raking in millions of dollars annually ...
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An insightful read for anyone who is interested in religion, this book offers fresh, biblical insight into the preaching of faith healing from a Christian perspective. Faith healing has been a popular religious phenomenon in this country for well over a hundred years, gaining thousands of followers and raking in millions of dollars annually ...
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Traumatizing Romanticism in Brian Friel's Faith Healer
Modern Drama, 2004One vast and rich, not to mention conspicuous, field of intertextuality that has not been seriously engaged in explications of Faith Healer is that contested canonical construct and contradictory discursive formation called Romanticism, and in particular English Romanticism.
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