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Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity

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The reduction of medicine to physical mechanics and the human person to individual unit in the social machine is a troubling phenomenon to those of us who take integration and/or religious practice seriously. Authors Shuman and Meador explain how we got to this place in clear and mostly impartial terms. It does a great deal to clear up how therapy and social Darwinism got mixed up with religion and how the household of faith was transformed into the late capitalist economy.

I have been a researcher for the past two decades who has struggled with the arbitrary separation between my research and my Christianity. This book has been my wake up call to filter my research through my Christianity.

This book makes a decent point about our inability to make God conform to our needs by worshiping just for the sake of healing. However, the philosophy sections are hard-going and probably unnecessarily long. Other readers of this book have noted that more can be gleaned from it on the second reading. An interesting, but to my mind not entirely convincing, take on US culture and the medical culture.