Tag: Faith Healing
Bath Christian group’s ‘God can heal’ adverts banned
BBC News February 3, 2012.
Print: BBC News
A Christian group has been banned from claiming that God can heal illnesses on its website and in leaflets.
Faith Healing Parents Convicted
By Steve Mays June 8, 2011.
Print: The Huffington Post
After just an hour of deliberation, jurors on Tuesday (June 7) unanimously found two members of a faith-healing church guilty of felony criminal mistreatment for not seeking medical care for their daughter.
Faith-healing parents charged in death of infant son
MENSAH M. DEAN October 8, 2009.
Print: Philadelphia Daily News
Two Pennsylvania parents now face criminal charges due to the death of their infant, as a result of bacterial pneumonia. This death could have been prevented by consulting a physician and the use of Tylenol or an antibiotic, however the parents elected to try and combat the illness with prayer, rather than medicine.
Praying man let his daughter die
August 1, 2009.
Print: BBC News
Religious man lets his daughter die, and thereby proves to himself that God doesn’t exist. She died of a treatable disease - undiagnosed diabetes - at home in rural Wisconsin in March last year, as people surrounded her and prayed.
Police hunt bogus faith healers
Mark Daly July 23, 2009.
Print: BBC News
Police are hunting a bogus spiritual healer who conned £10,000 out of a desperate family man.
Mother found guilty in Wausau prayer death case
Robert Imrie, Associated Press May 23, 2009.
Print: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A jury Friday found a central Wisconsin mother guilty of killing her 11-year-old daughter by praying for her to heal instead of rushing her to a doctor.
Sick girl’s mom said she expected `divine healing’
By ROBERT IMRIE May 22, 2009.
Print: The Washington Post
Just hours after an 11-year-old girl died of untreated diabetes, her mother told police she never considered taking her tired, pale and skinny daughter to a doctor for what she believed was a spiritual attack.
“Placebo: Cracking the Code”. Part 2
Nicholas Humphrey May 18, 2009.
Video: Discovery Channel
Acclaimed documentary about the science of the placebo effect. Featuring the Harvard Placebo Study Group: Anne Harrington, Nicholas Humphrey, Fabrizio Benedetti, Dan Moerman, Howard Fields.
“Placebo: Cracking the Code”. Part 1
Nicholas Humphrey May 18, 2009.
Video: Discovery Channel
Acclaimed documentary about the science of the placebo effect. Featuring the Harvard Placebo Study Group: Anne Harrington, Nicholas Humphrey, Fabrizio Benedetti, Dan Moerman, Howard Fields.
Should Universal Health Care Cover Faith Healing?
Amy Sullivan May 14, 2009.
Print: Time
Practitioners of Christian Science and other alternative therapies are intent on influencing the coming health care reform process.
The Biology Of Belief
Jeffrey Kluger February 14, 2009.
Time
Most folks probably couldn’t locate their parietal lobe with a map and a compass. For the record, it’s at the top of your head — aft of the frontal lobe, fore of the occipital lobe, north of the temporal lobe. What makes the parietal lobe special is not where it lives but what it does — particularly concerning matters of faith.
