Rennie B. Schoepflin is a historian of medicine and religion, and this academic book, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, examines the legal and cultural conflicts between Christian Science religious healing practice and American medicine and law, particularly cases where Christian Science parents faced prosecution over healthcare decisions for their children. Its strength is treating the conflict as a genuine clash of sincerely held worldviews rather than simply siding with medicine against religion, tracing how courts and public opinion actually navigated these disputes historically. Its limit is that it focuses on the historical legal record through its period of study, so more recent Christian Science practice and any more current legal developments need to be checked against separate, more current sources.
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AuthorRennie B. Schoepflin
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
Publication Year2003
URLhttps://archive.org/details/christianscience0000scho
Source Typebook
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Rennie B. Schoepflin's scholarly history of Christian Science religious healing practice and its collisions with American law and medicine. NotesHistory of Christian Science religious healing practice and its collisions with American law and medicine.
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