Word: beliefs
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Dragging religion into clinical medicine, argues Sloan, is bad for both. Too much of the research is sloppy and funded by folks who have a stake in finding that belief is good for us. The result is bad science, bad medicine--and even bad religion when faith is trivialized by being treated like just another item in the health-care system's bag of tricks...
This rich collection addresses the multicultural world of spirituality that immigration has created in the U.S. The authors explore healing traditions usually left out of mainstream research into belief and health, such as those with roots in the Caribbean, Mexico and South Asia...
...including former President George W. Bush, is against stem-cell research. It's embryonic-stem-cell research that's debatable. The so-called dark days of the Bush Administration's stem-cell restrictions were a result of our former President's courage to enact policies that reflected his belief (shared by many) that life begins at conception. It's because of these restrictions that scientists discovered the exciting potential of other types of stem cells. Diann Claassen, TEMPERANCE, MICH...
Three experts--the Rev. George Handzo, a chaplain with the HealthCare Chaplaincy of New York City; Dr. Andrew Newberg, a radiologist and psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Richard Sloan, a psychiatrist at Columbia University--discuss the role that belief should play in science...
...science. Science doesn't deal in supernatural explanations, and that's a supernatural explanation. Religion and science address different concerns, and it's perfectly plausible, I think, as Dr. Newberg has suggested, to be a scientist and still believe in divine presence. But that doesn't mean that your belief in the divine presence finds its way into your science. Those are different things. Religion deals with a different domain...