The personal testimony of individuals engaged in healing practices and the opposing voices of orthodox and alternative medicines are the center of "Healing Powers." Focusing on medical norms and practices and on competing philosophies of the mind, the body, reality, and rationality across radically different "belief systems," Fred Frohock clarifies the social and legal dilemmas represented by "scientific medicine" and "alternative care."
"Frohock goes beyond the often irreconcilable differences between scientific biomedicine and alternative care by clarifying the social and legal dilemmas...

This serves as a handbook to guide us through the thickets of the sacred, the secular, religion and politics, by charting the supernatural as a natural defining feature of religion. Santeria is used as a case study to illustrate the similarities and differences among religious and political practices and discusses effective dispute management."

Is death the final event in human life, or does another existence follow? What are the signs and possible proofs of such continuity? Such questions have sparked speculation in philosophy, religion, art, and science throughout human history and remain a familiar concern for even the most casual observer of the human condition. In his provocative new book, Fred Frohock explores the possibility that our existence is neither defined by nor limited to the purely physical--nor is it terminated at death.

Fearlessly pursuing such a sensitive subject, Frohock suggests that death's domain may not...