Main description:

Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine provides a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between spirituality, religion, and medicine evaluating current empirical research and academic scholarship.

In Part 1, the book examines the relationship of religion, spirituality, and the practice of medicine by assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the most recent empirical research of religion/spirituality within twelve distinct fields of medicine including pediatrics, psychiatry, internal medicine, surgery, palliative care, and medical ethics. Written by leading clinician researchers in their fields, contributors provide case examples and highlight best practices when engaging
religion/spirituality within clinical practice. This is 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.

Recognizing the interdisciplinary aspects of spirituality, religion, and health, Part 2 of the book turns to academic scholarship outside the field of medicine to consider cultural dimensions that form clinical practice. Social-scientific, practical, and humanity fields include psychology, sociology, anthropology, law, history, philosophy, and theology. This is the first time in a single volume that readers can reflect on these multi-dimensional, complex issues with contributions from leading
scholars.

In Part III, 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 remainingopen questions for further reflection and research.

This book will provide trainees and clinicians with an introduction to the field of spirituality, religion, and medicine, and its multi-disciplinary approach will give researchers and scholars in the field a critical and up-to-date analysis.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction:
Michael J. Balboni and John R. Peteet

PART I: Religion, Spirituality, and Medical Sub-Specialities

Chapter 2. Religion and Spirituality in OBGYN
Rachel Peragallo and John Thorp

Chapter 3. Religion and Spirituality in Pediatrics
Ray Barfield and Sarah Barton

Chapter 4. Religion and Spirituality in Family Medicine
Timothy P. Daaleman

Chapter 5. Religion and Spirituality in Psychiatry
Dan G. Blazer

Chapter 6. Religion and Spirituality in Internal Medicine
Lydia S. Dugdale and Daniel P. Sulmasy

Chapter 7. Religion and Spirituality in Surgery
John Tarpley and Margaret Tarpley

Chapter 8. Religion and Spirituality in Gerontology
Harold G. Koenig

Chapter 9. Religion and Spirituality in Oncology
Alan Astrow

Chapter 10. Religion and Spirituality in Palliative Medicine
Tracy Balboni and Michael Balboni

Chapter 11. Religion and Spirituality in the Intensive Care Unit
Alex Cist and Philip Choi

Chapter 12: Religion and Spirituality in Medical Ethics
Farr A. Curlin

Chapter 13: Religion and Spirituality in Medical Education
Marta Herschkopf and Christina Puchalski

Chapter 14. Religion and Spirituality in Nursing
John Swinton and Lynn Vanderpot

Part Two: Scholarly Disciplinary Perspectives

Chapter 15. Medicine, Spirituality, Religion and Psychology
Kelly Trevino and Kenneth Pargament

Chapter 16. Spirituality, Resistance, and Modern Medicine: A Sociological Perspective
Jonathan Imber

Chapter 17. Anthropologies of Medicine, Religion, and Spirituality and Their Application to Clinical Practice
Lance D. Laird and L. Linda Barnes

Chapter 18. Law, Religion, and the Physician-Patient Relationship
Michael P, Moreland and O. Carter Snead

Chapter 19. Medicine and Spirituality: A Historical Perspective
Gary B. Ferngren

Chapter 20. Philosophical Perspectives on Medicine and Religion
James A. Marcum

Chapter 21. Medicine, Religion and Spirituality in Theological Context
Brett McCarty and Warren Kinghorn

Part Three: Synthesis and Integration

Chapter 22. Religion and Health: A Synthesis
Tyler VanderWeele