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Healing words : the power of prayer and the practice of medicine
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Title
Healing words : the power of prayer and the practice of medicine / Larry Dossey.
ISBN
0062502514
9780062502513
0062502522
9780062502520
0062510223
9780062510228
Edition
1st ed.
Published
[San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, ©1993.
Physical Description
xxi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Zab W6758 Zz993D: Dust jacket. Presentation inscription from Larry Dossey to Terry Tempest Williams. From the library of Terry Tempest Williams.
Summary
A study of the relationship between prayer and healing.
Other formats
Online version: Dossey, Larry, 1940- Healing words. 1st ed. [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, ©1993
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 04, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and index.
Contents
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.
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