Research Catalog

Title

The rebirth of the clinic : an introduction to spirituality in health care / Daniel P. Sulmasy.

Author

Sulmasy, Daniel P., 1956-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006.

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Details

Description

xvi, 246 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Medical care > Religious aspects
• Patient Care > psychology
• Physician's Role > psychology
• Religion and Medicine
• Spiritual Therapies
• Spirituality
• Terminal Care > psychology
• Terminal care > Religious aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rebirth in the clinic. Why surgeons must be very careful ; Is health care a spiritual practice? ; Dignity, vulnerability, and the personhood of the patient ; The wisdom of Ben Sira ; The dialectic of healing ; Taking physicians' oaths seriously -- The book of numbers : empirical research on spirituality and healing. What the data cannot mean ; A biopsychosocial-spiritual model of health care ; Scientific studies of the healing power of prayer ; Is there a moral obligation to address the spiritual needs of patients? -- At the threshold of death. On praying for a cure ; Healing the dying ; At W;t's end ; Peg.

ISBN

• 1589010957 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781589010956

LCCN

^^2005027250

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library