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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peteet, John R., 1947-

D'Ambra, Michael N.

Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine.

Medicine--Religious aspects.

Mind and body.

Spirituality.

Religion and Medicine.

Medical Subjects:

Spirituality.

Religion and Medicine.

Physical Description:

xii, 260 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Summary:

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/Eclectic, secular, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Christian Scientist. Their thought-provoking essays provide rich insights not only into the needs of patients with various world views but also into how spirituality influences the practice of medicine.

When their own spiritual issues arise in medical practice, physicians rely on their professionalism, ethics, and education. To better understand how various world views are incorporated into clinical work, doctors must ask themselves-as these contributors have-a series of important questions: What insights about life and healing does your faith provide? How does your faith challenge or reinforce contemporary medicine? How do you assess and address spirituality in clinical practice? How do your own beliefs influence your interactions with patients?

The Soul of Medicine encourages medical students and practitioners to recognize the spiritual dimensions of medicine, to consider how these dimensions inform their own education and practice, and to be compassionate about their patients'-and their own-religious beliefs. Book jacket.

Contents:

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 ... [et al.]

Spiritual care and chaplaincy / Terry R. Bard and Walter Moczynski

Teaching and learning at the interface of medicine and spirituality / Marta D. Herschkopf.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781421402994

1421402998

OCLC:

706784237