Paging God
Subtitle: religion in the halls of medicine
By: Wendy Cadge
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780226922102; 9780226922119; 9780226922133
Subjects: Medicine; Sociological aspects; Religious aspects; Hospitals; Hospital Chaplains
Description: Through a combination of interviews with nurses, doctors, and chaplains across the United States and close observation of their daily routines, Wendy Cadge takes readers inside major academic medical institutions to explore how today's doctors and hospitals address prayer and other forms of religion and spirituality. From chapels to intensive care units to the morgue, hospital caregivers speak directly in these pages about how religion is part of their daily work in visible and invisible ways. -- Book Cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning : a tour; title: Looking back : glimpses of religion and spirituality in the history of academic medical centers; title: From symbols to silence : the design and use of hospital chapels; title: Wholeness, presence, and hope : the perspectives of hospital chaplains; title: Essential or optional? : how hospitals shape the professional tasks of chaplains; title: Spirituality and religion in intensive care : staff's perspectives and professional responses; title: Why sickness and death? : religion and spirituality in the ways intensive care unit staff make meaning; title: Managing death : the personal and institutional 'dirty work' of chaplains; title: Conclusion : looking forward.