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Spirituality, Religious Wisdom and the Care of the PatientPrimary Author: The Bioethics Institute of New York Medical College Video from a 2004 interfaith conference that seeks to educate health care professionals about how different religious traditions view medicine and illness, and help them evaluate their own responses to the demands of caring for seriously ill patients.
Date Last Modified 12/31/2004
Video, Lecture presentation
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A Time for Listening and Caring Spirituality and the Care of the Chronically Ill and DyingPrimary Author: Christina M. Puchalski, GWish: The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health A thoughtful, informative, and practical guide for anyone involved in caring for the seriously and chronically ill or dying. This book covers how spiritual care can be integrated into traditional caregiving. Part one discusses aspects of spirituality, such as presence, ethics, and relationships. Part two delves into a number of specific religious and theological traditions. Part three offers practical applications and tools, including storytelling, psychotherapy, dance, music, and the arts. Part four focuses on patients' stories and reflections.
Date Last Modified 06/01/2006
Book
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What Moves the Scalpel? Science, Religion and the Practice of MedicinePrimary Author: Farr A. Curlin, University of Chicago Video and audio files of a talk Dr. Farlin gave at the Mayo Clinic as part of the Veritas Forum. "In this lecture, Farr Curlin unpacks the way medicine looks beyond science to find forces that motivate care for the sick, direct the application of medical technology, and ground clinical care in an orientation to the patient as person. He suggests that even though religious ideas are rarely made explicit in public and professional discourse about medicine, they are everywhere implicit and operative, necessarily so. In this light, Curlin argues that the time is ripe for clinicians and laypeople to develop practices of medicine that are more fulsomely and self-consciously grounded in and informed by religion."
Date Last Modified 09/23/2009
Video, Lecture presentation
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