Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine provides a
comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between spirituality,
religion, and medical practice. The authors, all leading
clinician-researchers in their fields, assess the strengths and
weaknesses of the most recent empirical research of religion and
spirituality within many distinct fields of medicine. Recognizing
the interdisciplinary aspects of spirituality, religion, and
health, the book also turns to scholarship throughout a multitude
of academic fields-including psychology, sociology, anthropology,
law, history, philosophy, and theology-to consider cultural
dimensions of clinical practice. This is the first time in a single
volume that readers can reflect on these multi-dimensional, complex
issues with contributions from leading scholars, as well as the
first collection that assesses how the medical context interacts
with patient spirituality recognizing crucial differences between
contexts from obstetrics and family medicine, to nursing, to
gerontology and the ICU. The book concludes with a synthesis,
identifying the best studies in the field of religion and health,
ongoing weaknesses in research, and highlighting what can be
confidently believed based on prior studies. The synthesis also
considers relations between the empirical literature on religion
and health and the theological and religious traditions, discussing
places of convergence and tension, as well as remaining open
questions for further reflection and research. Spirituality and
Religion within the Culture of Medicine provides trainees and
clinicians introductory information for newcomers to the field of
spirituality, religion, and medicine, and provides researchers and
scholars familiar with field critical and up-to-date analysis from
a multi-disciplinary approach.
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