Medical views Efficacy of prayer




1 medical views

1.1 medical skepticism
1.2 medical hopes
1.3 different approaches medicine





medical views
medical skepticism

an article in medical journal of australia says 1 common criticism of prayer research prayer has become popular therapeutic method there no known plausible mechanism.


medical professionals skeptical of new claims studies until have been experimentally reproduced , corroborated. instance, 2001 study researchers associated columbia university has been associated controversy, following claims of success in popular media.


medical hopes

in 20th century, florence nightingale, pioneer of modern nursing, believer in effects of prayer. wrote, when people seem unconscious, word of prayer reaches them .


today, although different medical studies have been @ odds 1 another, physicians have not stopped studying or recommending prayer. may partly because prayer increasingly used coping mechanism patients. according larry dossey m.d.: in 1993, 3 u.s. medical schools had courses devoted exploring role of religious practice , prayer in health; currently, 80 medical schools have instituted such courses , though many factors other efficacy of prayer involved in such courses.


different approaches medicine

apart traditional medicine, alternative approaches based on prayer have been proposed. prayer becoming increasingly used in approaches healing.








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