Spiritual Caregiving: Healthcare as a Ministry
Verna Benner Carson, Ph.D., is the national director of behavioral health at Staff Builders Home Health and Hospice. She was an associate professor of psychiatric nursing at the University of Maryland School of Nursing for twenty-one years. She is the author of four books, including Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice. She lives in Fallston, MarylandHarold G. Koenig, M.D., is associate professor of psychiatry and associate professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center. He is the director and founder of the Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality and Health, is editor of the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, editor-in-chief of Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology, and has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with over 150 scientific peer-reviewed articles, 35 book chapters, and 16 books. His most recent book is The Handbook of Religion and Health: A Century of Research Reviewed. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.