The spiritual challenge of health care
By: edited by Mark Cobb, Vanessa Robshaw.
Contributors: Cobb, Mark.; Robshaw, Vanessa.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Health -- Religious aspects.; Medical care -- Psychological aspects; Medicine -- Religious aspects.; Pastoral Care.; Physician and patient.; Professional-Patient Relations.; Religion and Medicine.; Religion and Psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: body and soul?; title: Spiritual care, health care: what's the difference; title: Meaning of spirituality in illness; title: Re-enchantment of health care: a paradigm of spirituality; title: Faith as the 'space between'; title: Spirituality and the world faiths; title: Faith and belief: a sociological perspective; title: Assessing spiritual need: an examination of practice; title: Nurse's role in spiritual care; title: Spirituality and the scientific mind: a dilemma for doctors; title: Notion of spiritual care in professional practice; title: Spirituality and hospice care; title: Spiritual values in a secular age