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By Fred M. Frohock. 340 pp. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992. $29.95. ISBN 0-226-26584-6.

Most people value the goal of personal health highly. Considerable differences of opinion and belief exist, however, about how best to preserve and promote one's own physical and mental well-being. Usually, there is no problem when "alternative" approaches are used to supplement conventional, accepted medical therapies (for example, praying for a successful surgical outcome). When therapeutic strategies predicated on spiritual beliefs are employed exclusively, however, as a substitute for conventional medicine, fundamental moral and public-policy questions about the relation between society and individual choice emerge. This intersection of state authority and personal faith, within a context of illness and medical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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