Bad faith : when religious belief undermines modern medicine
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Bad faith : when religious belief undermines modern medicine
Basic Books, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-229) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In recent years, there have been major outbreaks of whooping cough among children in California, mumps in New York, and measles in Ohio's Amish country,despite the fact that these are all vaccine-preventable diseases. Although America is the most medically advanced place in the world, many people disregard modern medicine in favour of using their faith to fight life threatening illnesses. Christian Scientists pray for healing instead of going to the doctor, Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood transfusions, and ultra-Orthodox Jewish mohels spread herpes by using a primitive ritual to clean the wound. Tragically, children suffer and die every year from treatable diseases, and in most states it is legal for parents to deny their children care for religious reasons. In twenty-first century America, how could this be happening?In Bad Faith , acclaimed physician and author Dr. Paul Offit gives readers a never-before-seen look into the minds of those who choose to medically martyr themselves, or their children, in the name of religion. Offit chronicles the stories of these faithful and their children, whose devastating experiences highlight the tangled relationship between religion and medicine in America. Religious or not, this issue reaches everyone,whether you are seeking treatment at a Catholic hospital or trying to keep your kids safe from diseases spread by their unvaccinated peers.Replete with vivid storytelling and complex, compelling characters, Bad Faith makes a strenuous case that denying medicine to children in the name of religion isn't just unwise and immoral, but a rejection of the very best aspects of what belief itself has to offer.
Table of Contents
Introduction: At the Crossroads 1. "The Very Worst Thing" 2. A Fragile Magic 3. A Vengeful God 4. The Faith Healer Next Door 5. The Literal and the Damned 6. Dialogue of the Deaf 7. Do Unto Others 8. Ungodly Acts 9. The Miracle Business 10. The Peculiar People 11. The Divine Whisperer 12. Standing Up Epilogue: "The Frail Web of Understanding"
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