基本説明
Explores the role and influence of spirituality in clinical practice, professionalism, and medical education.
Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Part I: Historical and Clinical Context
Chapter 1. Spirituality and Biomedicine: A History of Harmony and Discord
Chapter 2. Approaching Spirituality in Clinical Practice
Part II: Major Traditions and Medicine
Chapter 3. Judaism
Chapter 4. Hinduism
Chapter 5. Islam
Chapter 6. Christianity
Chapter 7. Buddhism
Chapter 8. Eclectic Spirituality
Chapter 9. Christian Science
Chapter 10. Jehovah's Witnesses
Chapter 11. A Secular Perspective
Part III: Implications and Applications
Chapter 12. Ethical Considerations and Implications for Professionalism
Chapter 13. Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy
Chapter 14. Teaching and Learning at the Interface of Medicine and Spirituality
