RELIGST 2WW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Allopathic Medicine, Bioethics, Theta Wave

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2WW3
• Professor: Dr.Michael Agnew

Document Summary

Examines the interactions between religious beliefs and practices and perspectives on/ experiences of health, illness, and healing. Examples from shamanism, folk or local medicine, spiritual healing, pilgrimage, and the relation between faith, ritual, and establish biomedical practices. Primarily from a social scienti c perspective (anthropology) Focus on the western religious and biomedical context. Re ect main ideas of the course but does not have to be covered in detail by the course outline. Specify thesis (the argument you plan to prove or substantiate) Give outline of subtopics (body paragraphs of paper; use subheadings) Point form, short paragraphs, etc. (skeleton of paper) Give a provisional annotated bibliography of 4-5 sources (including journal articles and books), summarizing in a few sentences the subject of the source as well as its relevance to your topic/the course. See annotated bibliography example on a2l (summary of resource"s main points and how it will be used in the paper)