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The Rebirth of the Clinic : an Introduction to Spirituality in Health Care.
The Rebirth of the Clinic begins with a bold assertion: the doctor-patient relationship is sick. Fortunately, as this engrossing book demonstrates, the damage is not irreparable. Today, patients voice their desires to be seen not just as bodies, but as whole people. Though not willing to give up sci...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Washington :
Georgetown University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Rebirth in the Clinic; 1 Why Surgeons Must Be Very Careful; 2 Is Health Care a Spiritual Practice?; 3 Dignity, Vulnerability, and the Personhood of the Patient; 4 The Wisdom of Ben Sira; 5 The Dialectic of Healing; 6 Taking Physicians' Oaths Seriously; Part II. The Book of Numbers: Empirical Research on Spirituality and Healing; 7 What the Data Cannot Mean; 8 A Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model of Health Care; 9 Scientific Studies of the Healing Power of Prayer; 10 Is There a Moral Obligation to Address the Spiritual Needs of Patients?
- Part III. At the Threshold of Death11 On Praying for a Cure; 12 Healing the Dying; 13 At W; t's End; 14 Peg; Postscript: Is There Life after the Clinic?; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.