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Arch Intern Med. 2001;161:1811-1812.

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IN THE BEGINNING, religion and healing were inseparable. In some societies, the priest and physician were one and the same person, administering spiritual and physical healing with divine sanction.¹ The advent of scientific medicine in the middle of the 19th century separated medicine from religion nearly completely. A century later, the direct interrelationship between the body and mind became firmly established, although psychosomatic medicine had already been described in the 12th century by Moses Maimonides.²

Over the past several decades, there has been a broad revival of interest in spiritual healing and religious practice and health. The return to spirituality and religion by patients as an adjunct to their physical healing is no longer ignored by physicians and other caregivers. In a sense, religion can be considered a form of complementary or supplementary therapy.

At the culmination of a century of scientific discovery and medical progress, physicians and their patients . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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