Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect

Subjects:

• Health/Medicine » Public Health
• Psychology » Clinical Psychology
• Religious Studies » Theology/Spirituality

Reviews:

• Ian Stevenson is the foremost researcher on reincarnation in this country and, indeed, the world. No one who studies his work can fail to be impressed with the carefulness of his fact-finding and evidence-gathering and with the honesty and candor of his conclusions. If you are interested in the evidence for reincarnation, buy this book. For those cases which particularly fascinate you, you will want to examine their details in Reincarnation and Biology.
  —Spiritual Frontiers
• This amazing book provides a synopsis of the multivolume series of books that Stevenson published over a course of nearly four decades....This book is of general interest and useful for undergraduate and public library collections.
  —Religious Studies Review
• Br Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia, US, has run a throrough investigation into the numerous claims of babies born bearing the scars receives in former lives. Many of his findings are documented in the 1997 book Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect.
  —The X Factor
• Dr. Ian Stevenson, a distinguished scholar and professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia has written a highly intriguing book about his experiences around the world that support the idea that birth marks and other skin lesions and abnormalities may provide evidence of cutaneous injurines sustained in a previous life, thus supporting the notion of reincarnation....Ian Stevenson' well written book, modest in its claims, is an interesting read with an intriguing challenge.
  —Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Bodily Changes Corresponding to Mental Images in the Person Affected
• Bodily Changes Corresponding to Another Person's Mental Images
• Birthmarks Related to Previous Lives without Verification of Possible Corresponding Wounds
• Birthmarks Corresponding to Wounds Verified by Informants' Memories
• Birthmarks Corresponding to Wounds Verified by Medical Records
• Birthmarks Corresponding to Surgical Wounds and Other Skin Lesions on Deceased Persons
• Birthmarks Corresponding to Other Types of Wounds or Marks on Deceased Persons
• Nevi Corresponding to Wounds or Other Marks on Deceased Persons
• The Prediction of Birthmarks
• Changes in the Appearance and Relative Location of Birthmarks
• Correspondences of Details between Birthmarks and Related Wounds or Other Marks on Deceased Persons
• Discrepancies between Birthmarks and the Evidence of Reportedly Corresponding Wounds
• Some Correlates of Birthmarks Attributed to Previous Lives
• The Interpretations of Birthmarks Related to Previous Lives
• Introduction to Cases with Birth Defects
• Birth Defects of the Extremities
• Birth Defects of the Head and Neck
• Birth Defects Involving Two or More Regions of the Body
• Experimental Birth Defects
• Internal Diseases Related to Previous Lives
• Abnormalities of Pigmentation that May Derive from Previous Lives
• Physiques, Postures, Gestures, and Other Involuntary Movements Related to Previous Lives
• The Face as a Type of Birthmark or Birth Defect
• Twins with Memories of Previous Lives
• General Discussion
• Sources of Additional Information
• Index