Acknowledgments

Contributors

The Meanings of Health and Illness: Medicine, Religion and the Body (Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White)

Section I the Social and Spiritual Body

Chapter One Contested Sites: Aboriginal Health and Healers Engaging Western Medicine (Brian F. McCoy)

Chapter Two The 'Religionated' Body: Fatwas and Body Parts (Roxanne D. Marcotte)

Chapter Three The Body and the World in Buddhism (Peter G. Friedlander)

Chapter Four Subtle Anatomy: The Bio-metaphysics of Alternative Therapies (Jay Johnston)

Chapter Five Piety, Prolongevity and Perpetuity: The Consequences of Living Forever (Bryan S. Turner)

Section II Negotiating Medicine, Healing and Religious Belief

Chapter Six 'Pity and also Horror': Public Mourning, Breast Cancer, and a French Queen (Thérèse Taylor)

Chapter Seven Spiritual Boundary Work: How Spiritual Healers and Medical Clairvoyants Negotiate the Sacred (Ruth Barcan)

Chapter Eight Moments of Grace and Blessing: Rites and Rituals in the Process of Healing (Roy J. O'Neill)

Chapter Nine Limitations in Death: Negotiating Sentiment and Science in the Case of the Hospital Autopsy (Philomena Horsley)

Chapter Ten The Care of the Body (Jeremy Shearmur)

Section III Virtue, Health and the State

Chapter Eleven Deadly Sin: Gluttony, Obesity and Health Policy (William James Hoverd)

Chapter Twelve Painful Paradoxes: Consumption, Sacrifice and Man-Building in the Age of Nationalism (Christopher E. Forth)

Chapter Thirteen Freezing Sacred Man: Myth, Philosophy, and Medicine's Practice of Curing Undesirables (Peter Arnds)

Bibliography

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