TY  - BOOK
AU  - D'Ambra,Michael N.
AU  - Peteet,John R.
TI  - The soul of medicine: spiritual perspectives and clinical practice 
SN  - 9781421403953
AV  - R708 .S685 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Mind and body
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Religion and Medicine
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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