Rennie B. Schoepflin, Ph.D., is an associate professor of history at La Sierra University in Riverside, California.

• Contents: Acknowlegdements Introduction PART 1 The World of Christian Science Healers1. Mary Baker Eddy: Patient, Healer, Teacher 2. Becoming a Practitioner and Teacher 3. "Occasions for Hope": Patients and Practitioners 4. Separating "True" Scientists from "Pseudo" Scientists PART 2 Christian Science Healers and the World 5. Physicians Debate Christian Science 6. Therapeutic Choice or Religious Liberty? 7. Public Health and the Protection of Children 8. Century of Promise, Then Peril Appendix: Court Cases Involving Christian Science Practice Notes Archives Consulted Bibliographical Essay Index

This well-documented volume, with its extremely well-written chronicle of the dialigue between Christian Science and modern medicine, makes the very interesting point that Christian Science's emphasis on spirituality as relevant for the cure of disease has finally 'come of age'. Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology A densely researched narrative of how this unusual, but enduring, form of medicine and religion developed. Through detailed accounts of testimony given in various legal proceedings, Schoepflin captures-often in their own words-the flavor of exchanges between Christian Scientists and those in the emerging establishment of allopathic medicine. New England Journal of Medicine 2004 Clearly written and well argued, Schoepflin's excellent study moves beyond the prescriptive literature-focused and Eddy-centered scholarship to show what practitioners and their patients did and thought near the turn of the century. Choice 2003

Rennie B. Schoepflin, Ph.D., is an associate professor of history at La Sierra University in Riverside, California.

• Contents: Acknowlegdements Introduction PART 1 The World of Christian Science Healers1. Mary Baker Eddy: Patient, Healer, Teacher 2. Becoming a Practitioner and Teacher 3. "Occasions for Hope": Patients and Practitioners 4. Separating "True" Scientists from "Pseudo" Scientists PART 2 Christian Science Healers and the World 5. Physicians Debate Christian Science 6. Therapeutic Choice or Religious Liberty? 7. Public Health and the Protection of Children 8. Century of Promise, Then Peril Appendix: Court Cases Involving Christian Science Practice Notes Archives Consulted Bibliographical Essay Index

This well-documented volume, with its extremely well-written chronicle of the dialigue between Christian Science and modern medicine, makes the very interesting point that Christian Science's emphasis on spirituality as relevant for the cure of disease has finally 'come of age'. Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology A densely researched narrative of how this unusual, but enduring, form of medicine and religion developed. Through detailed accounts of testimony given in various legal proceedings, Schoepflin captures-often in their own words-the flavor of exchanges between Christian Scientists and those in the emerging establishment of allopathic medicine. New England Journal of Medicine 2004 Clearly written and well argued, Schoepflin's excellent study moves beyond the prescriptive literature-focused and Eddy-centered scholarship to show what practitioners and their patients did and thought near the turn of the century. Choice 2003

Rennie B. Schoepflin, Ph.D., is an associate professor of history at La Sierra University in Riverside, California.

• Contents: Acknowlegdements Introduction PART 1 The World of Christian Science Healers1. Mary Baker Eddy: Patient, Healer, Teacher 2. Becoming a Practitioner and Teacher 3. "Occasions for Hope": Patients and Practitioners 4. Separating "True" Scientists from "Pseudo" Scientists PART 2 Christian Science Healers and the World 5. Physicians Debate Christian Science 6. Therapeutic Choice or Religious Liberty? 7. Public Health and the Protection of Children 8. Century of Promise, Then Peril Appendix: Court Cases Involving Christian Science Practice Notes Archives Consulted Bibliographical Essay Index

This well-documented volume, with its extremely well-written chronicle of the dialigue between Christian Science and modern medicine, makes the very interesting point that Christian Science's emphasis on spirituality as relevant for the cure of disease has finally 'come of age'. Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology A densely researched narrative of how this unusual, but enduring, form of medicine and religion developed. Through detailed accounts of testimony given in various legal proceedings, Schoepflin captures-often in their own words-the flavor of exchanges between Christian Scientists and those in the emerging establishment of allopathic medicine. New England Journal of Medicine 2004 Clearly written and well argued, Schoepflin's excellent study moves beyond the prescriptive literature-focused and Eddy-centered scholarship to show what practitioners and their patients did and thought near the turn of the century. Choice 2003