The spiritual challenge of health care /
The spiritual challenge of health care /
edited by Mark Cobb, Vanessa Robshaw.
- Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone, 1998.
- x, 206p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction: body and soul?--2. Spiritual care, health care: what's the difference?--3. The meaning of spirituality in illness--4. The re-enchantment of health care: a paradigm of spirituality--5. Faith as the 'space between'.--6. Spirituality and the world faiths--7. Faith and belief: a sociological perspective--8. Assessing spiritual need: an examination of practice--9. The nurse's role in spiritual care--10. Spirituality and the scientific mind: a dilemma for doctors--11. The notion of spiritual care in professional practice--12. Spirituality and hospice care--13. Spiritual values in a secular age.
Written for professionals who value the human relationship side of care and who want to deal with the spiritual dimensions of people, this book draws from a number of traditions to argue that medicine must be both a science and an art.
9780443059209 (pbk.) : £17.50 0443059209
Patients--Pastoral counseling
Medical care--Religious aspects
Medical care.
Spirituality.
Health and Wellbeing.
Nursing
Religion: general
Health systems & services
Nursing & ancillary services
610.73069 COB
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction: body and soul?--2. Spiritual care, health care: what's the difference?--3. The meaning of spirituality in illness--4. The re-enchantment of health care: a paradigm of spirituality--5. Faith as the 'space between'.--6. Spirituality and the world faiths--7. Faith and belief: a sociological perspective--8. Assessing spiritual need: an examination of practice--9. The nurse's role in spiritual care--10. Spirituality and the scientific mind: a dilemma for doctors--11. The notion of spiritual care in professional practice--12. Spirituality and hospice care--13. Spiritual values in a secular age.
Written for professionals who value the human relationship side of care and who want to deal with the spiritual dimensions of people, this book draws from a number of traditions to argue that medicine must be both a science and an art.
9780443059209 (pbk.) : £17.50 0443059209
Patients--Pastoral counseling
Medical care--Religious aspects
Medical care.
Spirituality.
Health and Wellbeing.
Nursing
Religion: general
Health systems & services
Nursing & ancillary services
610.73069 COB