Josephine P. Briggs is director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Research into the interconnectedness of the body and mind is funded by the center, which was created in 1992 (as the Office of Alternative Medicine) in response to the public’s growing interest in alternative health therapies, such as yoga […]

Integris maintains a list of current studies about the mind-body connection.

Read “How the Mind Hurts and Heals the Body,” by Oakley Ray of Vanderbilt University.

Read “An Analysis of the Field of Spirituality, Religion and Health,” by David Hufford for an overview on studies on religion and health.

Read “Faith, Healing: Is There a Proven Link?,” about the debate between Sloan and Harold Koenig, founding co-director of the Center for the Study of Spirituality, Theology and Health. The article is from the Nov. 25, 2003, Columbia Spectator.

Excerpt from Animals Rights and Human Obligations by Tom Regan and edited by Regan and Peter Singer (Prentice Hall, 1989). It is published on Webster University’s (St. Louis, Mo.) website.

Feb. 12, 2002, testimony of James F. Jarboe, Domestic Terrorism Section Chief, Counterterrorism Division, FBI, before the House Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health on “The Threat of Eco-Terrorism” in which he discusses some animal rights activism as domestic terrorism.

Peter Singer’s assessment of the animal rights movement in the May 15, 2003, New York Review of Books.

Feb. 6, 2004, article from the San Francisco Business Times describing the effects of strident and violent animal rights activism on the biotech industry.