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INTRODUCTION; SECTION I: Cross-Cultural Studies: HEALTH AND SUFFERING IN ZOROASTRIANISM; THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE PHYSICAL BODY: HEALTH, SUFFERING AND KARMA IN HINDU THOUGHT SUFFERING AND SANCTIFICATION IN CHRISTIANITY; CAN GOD INFLICT UNREQUITED PAIN ON HIS CREATURES? MUSLIM PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH AND SUFFERING; RELIGION, HEALTH AND SUFFERING AMONG CONTEMPORARY TIBETANS; SIKH PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH AND SUFFERING: A FOCUS ON SIKH THEODICY; HEALTH AND SUFFERING IN BUDDHISM: DOCTRINAL AND EXISTENTIAL CONSIDERATIONS; RELIGION, HEALTH AND SUFFERING FROM FOLK MEDICINE TO BIOETHICS IN JUDAISM; SECTION II: Non-European Health Systems: CHINESE HEALTH BELIEFS; MEDICINE AND MARTYRDOM: SOME DISCUSSIONS OF SUFFERING AND DIVINE JUSTICE IN EARLY ISLAMIC SOCIETY; APPEASING THE SPIRITS: HEALING STRATEGIES IN POSTWAR SOUTHERN MOZAMBIQUE; MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE: DEMONIC VENGEANCE IN CLASSICAL INDIAN MEDICINE; SECTION III: Pre-Modem Western Medicine: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON MEDICINE AND RELIGION IN THE ANCIENT WORLD; PAIN IN HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE; MEDICINE FOR THE SOUL: THE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH HOSPITAL AND THE QUEST FOR SPIRITUAL HEALTH; FEAR, ANXIETY AND THE PLAGUE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND: RELIGIOUS AND MEDICAL RESPONSES; SECTION IV: Modem Medicine: WESTERN MEDICINE AND PAIN: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES; BEYOND THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE? RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AGENCY AND COMMUNITY: THE LOCATION AND DISPERSAL OF INVIDIA; A GENERAL PRACTITIONER IN THE INNER CITY-THE REALITIES AND THE DIFFICULTIES; CONCLUSION: SUFFER MANY HEALERS