Book Review

Abstract

<p><i>Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World</i> by Jacalyn Duffin, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.</p><p>Modern medical training is evidence based and does not account for miracles; and our modern culture tends to compartmentalize the two. In the saint-making process, a healthy respect exists between the physician and his knowledge and the theologian with his knowledge on spiritual matters.</p><p>In <i>Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World</i> by physician-historian Jacalyn Duffin, this relationship is explored, and Vatican sources on fourteen hundred miracles spanning four centuries from six continents are examined. These miracles are considered evidence by the Roman Catholic Church effected by saints as a sign of their proximity to God.</p>