[UA] Medicine and Religion

[Mark Baker]

Robin Pfeifer <RobinPfeifer at web.de> writes
>Jehovah's Witnesses come to mind; at least they refuse blood transfer and such 
>things, and I think they pooh-pooh medical treatment in general. But you could 
>always invent your own fringe sect.
>
Jehovah's Witnesses aren't negative toward medical treatment in general,
quite the reverse. They have done a lot of pioneering work in surgery
techniques that don't involve blood transfusion, some of which have been
adopted by the medical profession as a whole.

-- 
Mark Baker
Web Pages: http://www.lange.demon.co.uk/Index.html

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