Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 6, Issue 1 , Pages 17-21 , January 2010

Medicine Can Give Me a Diagnosis, and Faith Can Give Me a Different Prognosis: Faith and Healing in the American South

  • Jane Teas, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of South Carolina Cancer Center, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding Author. Address: 915 Greene Street, Suite 241-2, Columbia, SC 29208

References 

  1. Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Religion and Public Life Survey. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center; 2007;
  2. Teas H, Holland M, Jackson T, Strazdins V. Faith that Heals: Stories of God's Love. Columbia, SC: SC McAC Press; 2008;
  3. Levin J. How faith heals: a theoretical model. Explore (NY). 2009;5:77–96
  4. Mansfield C, Mitchell J, King D. The doctor as God's mechanic? (Beliefs in the Southeastern United States). Soc Sci Med. 2002;54:399–409

 This study was supported by cooperative agreement U48/CCU409664: SIP 6-00 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to JT.

PII: S1550-8307(09)00345-0

doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2009.10.006

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 6, Issue 1 , Pages 17-21 , January 2010

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