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(Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context.) By Rennie B. Schoepflin. 301 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-7057-7.

This book is not so much a critical assessment of Christian Science as it is a densely researched narrative of how this unusual, but enduring, form of medicine and religion developed. Through detailed accounts of testimony given in various legal proceedings, Schoepflin captures — often in their own words — the flavor of exchanges between Christian Scientists and those in the emerging establishment of allopathic medicine. He traces with intriguing clarity how Mary Baker Eddy (Figure) discovered "Science," promulgated its "Truth," made a prosperous living practicing her form of "medicine," and eventually founded a countercultural religious movement to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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