To what extent should spiritual information be part of patients'
medical assessments? 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 produce rich
insights not only into the needs of patients who share these same
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 it 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.
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