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Healing words  the power of prayer and the practice of medicine / 
Larry Dossey. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - San Francisco, Calif.  HarperSanFrancisco,  c1993. 
 - xxi, 291 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Understanding prayer and healing -- Saints and sinners, health and illness -- Reach of the mind: setting the stage for prayer -- Factors influencing the efficacy of prayer -- Prayer and the unconscious mind -- Where do prayers go? -- How to pray and what to pray for -- Love and healing -- Time-displaced prayer: when prayers are answered before they are made -- Your doctor's beliefs and why they matter -- When prayer hurts: an inquiry into "black prayer" -- Evidence -- God in the laboratory -- Prayer and healing: reviewing the research -- What is healing? -- Controlled experimental trials of healing -- Spontaneous regression of cancer -- How good is the evidence? Prayer, meditation and parapsychology -- Healing and the mind: a summing up. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0062502514 (alk. paper) : 0062502522 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>92056132 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Healing--Religious aspects.<br/>Prayer.<br/>Religion and Medicine.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>291.43 Dos   8