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The soul of medicine : spiritual perspectives and clinical practice / edited by John R. Peteet and Michael N. D'Ambra.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2011.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421403953
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • R708 .S685 2011
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Michael J. Balboni and Tracy A. Balboni -- Approaching spirituality in clinical practice / John R. Peteet, Michael J. Balboni, and Michael N. D'Ambra -- Judaism / Steven C. Schachter and Terry R. Bard -- Hinduism / Gowri Anandarajah -- Islam / Areej El-Jawahri -- Christianity / John R. Knight and Walter Kim -- Buddhism / Robert Wall -- Eclectic spirituality / Elizabeth Spencer-Smith -- Christian Science / Christine J. Driessen -- Jehovah's Witnesses / Jon Schiller -- A secular perspective / David C. Ring -- Ethical considerations and implications for professionalism / Michael J. Balboni [and others] -- Spiritual care and chaplaincy / Terry R. Bard and Walter Moczynski -- Teaching and learning at the interface of medicine and spirituality / Marta D. Herschkopf.
Subject: To what extent should spiritual information be part of a patient's medical assessment? How should physicians respond when patients refuse life-saving care on religious grounds? Should doctors pray with their patients? Questions such as these raise deeper ones about the goals of medicine and the nature of healing. In a set of engaging and candid essays, The Soul of Medicine explores the role and influence of spirituality in clinical practice, professionalism, and medical education.The contributors to this volume approach this topic from their own spiritual perspectives?Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, New Age /
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Spirituality and biomedicine : a history of harmony and discord / Michael J. Balboni and Tracy A. Balboni -- Approaching spirituality in clinical practice / John R. Peteet, Michael J. Balboni, and Michael N. D'Ambra -- Judaism / Steven C. Schachter and Terry R. Bard -- Hinduism / Gowri Anandarajah -- Islam / Areej El-Jawahri -- Christianity / John R. Knight and Walter Kim -- Buddhism / Robert Wall -- Eclectic spirituality / Elizabeth Spencer-Smith -- Christian Science / Christine J. Driessen -- Jehovah's Witnesses / Jon Schiller -- A secular perspective / David C. Ring -- Ethical considerations and implications for professionalism / Michael J. Balboni [and others] -- Spiritual care and chaplaincy / Terry R. Bard and Walter Moczynski -- Teaching and learning at the interface of medicine and spirituality / Marta D. Herschkopf.

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To what extent should spiritual information be part of a patient's medical assessment? How should physicians respond when patients refuse life-saving care on religious grounds? Should doctors pray with their patients? Questions such as these raise deeper ones about the goals of medicine and the nature of healing. In a set of engaging and candid essays, The Soul of Medicine explores the role and influence of spirituality in clinical practice, professionalism, and medical education.The contributors to this volume approach this topic from their own spiritual perspectives?Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, New Age /

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