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In the 1960s, English physician and committed Christian Cicely
Saunders introduced a new way of treating the terminally ill that
she called hospice care. Emphasizing a holistic and compassionate
approach, her model led to the rapid growth of a worldwide hospice
movement. Aspects of the early hospice model that stressed
attention to the religious dimensions of death and dying, while
still recognized and practiced, have developed outside the purview
of academic inquiry and consideration. Meanwhile, global migration
and multicultural diversification in the West have dramatically
altered the profile of contemporary hospice care. In response to
these developments, this volume is the first to critically explore
how religious understandings of death are manifested and
experienced in palliative care settings.
This groundbreaking book addresses the spiritual aspect of hospice care for those who do not fit easily within traditional religious beliefs and categories. A companion volume to "Religious Understandings of a Good Death in Hospice Palliative Care," this work also advocates for renewed attention to the spiritual, the often overlooked element of hospice care. Drawing on data from clinical case studies, new sociological research, and the perspectives of agnostics, atheists, those who emphasize the spiritual rather than institutional dimensions of a traditional religion, and the rapidly growing cohort of those who describe themselves as spiritual-but-not-religious, the contributors to this volume interpret the shift from predominantly Christian-based pastoral services to a new approach to the spiritual shaped by the increasing diversity of Western societies and new understandings of the nature of secular society. How do we speak of this spirituality? How do we use it in a way that enables caregivers to assist patients? Clinicians and policy makers will appreciate the book s practical recommendations regarding staff roles, training, and resource allocation. General readers will be moved by the persuasive call for greater religious and spiritual literacy at every level of health care in order to respond to the full spectrum of human needs in life and in death."
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