Promoting scholarship and discourse regarding medicine and religion
The Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago is a leading forum for scholarship and discourse at the intersection of medicine and religion. Despite ample evidence that religious faith often animates clinicians’ practices and that patients’ experiences of illness are often mediated by faith, the relationship between medicine and religion is rarely studied. The Program on Medicine and Religion aims to fill this gap by conducting rigorous empirical, historical, theological, ethical, and legal scholarship to enrich our understanding of the meaning of illness and the myriad ways that religion and medicine both respond to the human predicaments of illness, injury, disability, suffering, and death.
Promoting scholarship and discourse regarding medicine and religion
