| Description | Notes for address on divine healing, given at the British Medical Association's ?annual conference, Brighton, 6 July 1956. Delivered at a special meeting arranged by the Churches Council of Healing. Discusses increased interest in the subject, shown by the growing number of meetings arranged between clergy and doctors; types of illness said to be cured by spiritual healing (psychogenic/ psychosomatic and organic disease); forms of spiritual healing used (laying of hands, prayer, conversion); beneficial and harmful effects of same; and the ethical role of the medical profession in ensuring that medical standards are upheld.
Notebook contains expanded notes on the topic. |