Healing words : the power of prayer and the practice of medicine / Larry Dossey.
By: Dossey, Larry
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TextPublisher: [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: First editionDescription: xxi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0062502514 (alk. paper) :; 0062502522 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Healing -- Religious aspects | PrayerDDC classification: 291.4/3 LOC classification: BL65.M4 | D67 1993Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and index.
Understanding prayer and healing -- Saints and sinners, health and illness -- Reach of the mind: setting the stage for prayer -- Factors influencing the efficacy of prayer -- Prayer and the unconscious mind -- Where do prayers go? -- How to pray and what to pray for -- Love and healing -- Time-displaced prayer: when prayers are answered before they are made -- Your doctor's beliefs and why they matter -- When prayer hurts: an inquiry into "black prayer" -- Evidence -- God in the laboratory -- Prayer and healing: reviewing the research -- What is healing? -- Controlled experimental trials of healing -- Spontaneous regression of cancer -- How good is the evidence? Prayer, meditation and parapsychology -- Healing and the mind: a summing up.