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Complementary therapies and traditional Judaism.

F Rosner1

  • 1Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Services, Queens Hospital Center, Jamaica, NY 11432, USA.

The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, New York
|April 1, 1999
PubMed
Summary

Jewish tradition mandates healing, encouraging patients to seek medical care. Complementary therapies like prayer are permissible when supplementing, not replacing, conventional scientific medicine.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Ethics
  • Religious Studies
  • Jewish Tradition

Background:

  • Jewish law obligates physicians to heal and patients to seek medical care.
  • Traditional Jewish perspectives encompass a range of healing practices.
  • The integration of religious beliefs with medical treatment is a key consideration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the role of Jewish tradition in patient and physician obligations regarding healing.
  • To examine the permissibility of complementary therapies within Jewish medical ethics.
  • To clarify the relationship between prayer, faith healing, and conventional medical treatment in Judaism.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of Jewish legal and ethical texts.
  • Review of traditional Jewish practices related to health and healing.
  • Examination of theological perspectives on divine healing and human intervention.

Main Results:

  • Physicians have a religious obligation to provide healing, and patients must seek it.
  • Complementary therapies, including prayer and faith healing, are sanctioned as supplements to, not substitutes for, traditional medical therapy.
  • Confidence in divine healing through prayer is encouraged when used in conjunction with scientific medicine.

Conclusions:

  • Jewish tradition supports a comprehensive approach to healing, integrating religious observance with scientific medical practice.
  • The ethical framework emphasizes the primacy of conventional medical treatment.
  • Religious practices can be incorporated to support patient well-being without undermining evidence-based medicine.

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