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A long historical tradition connects religion, medicine, and health care. Religious groups built the first hospitals in Western civilization during the fourth century for care of the sick unable to afford private medical care. For the next thousand years until the Reformation and to a lesser extent until the French Revolution, it was the religious establishment that built hospitals, provided ...
- Edward C. Kendall—Nobel Laureate
In 1950, the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine was...
- Implications for Clinical Practice
Features of spirituality include quest for meaning and...
- A Randomized Controlled Trial
Some US medical schools now offer courses in religion,...
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1226 Religion, Spirituality, and Medicine Mayo Clin Proc,...
- Edward C. Kendall—Nobel Laureate
Features of spirituality include quest for meaning and purpose, transcendence (ie, the sense that being human is more than simple material existence), connectedness (eg, with others, nature, or the divine), and values (eg, love, compassion, and justice). 3 Even though some people who regard themselves as spiritual do not endorse a formal religion, religious involvement and spirituality are ...
- Paul S. Mueller, David J. Plevak, Teresa A. Rummans
- 2001
Interest in the relationship between spirituality, religion, and clinical care has increased in the last 15 years. Religions often provide patients with specific moral guidance about a variety of medical issues and prescribe rituals that are important to patients.[ 3 ]
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- An Existential Functioning Model
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The integration of medicine and religion is challenging for historical, ethical, practical and conceptual reasons. In order to make more explicit the bases and goals of relating spirituality and medicine, we distinguish here three complementary perspectives: a whole-person care model that emphasizes teamwork among generalists and spiritual pro-fess...
Physicians and nurses concerned to promote full functioning of the whole patient— physical, emotional, and spiritual—sometimes find reasons and opportunities to go beyond screening and taking a history of their spiritual distress. Providing compassionate care may involve them in intimate aspects of their patient’s emotional and spiritual lives, uni...
We have contrasted these views for the sake of clarity, but view them as complementary rather than as competing models. The generalist–specialist model is a necessary practical step to organize spiritual care as part of whole-person care in the current culture of medicine and to integrate trained chaplains as equal members of the healthcare team. A...
Spirituality and Religion and Measured Outcomes. Growing evidence gathered from the past two decades demonstrates that religion/spirituality is associated with quality of life measures, satisfaction, and utilization outcomes. Quality of Life: In 1999, Brady et al. carried out a multisite, cross-sectional study of 1,610 cancer patients.
Keywords: spirituality, religion, religion and psychology, religion and medicine, healthcare. Introduction. Spirituality is a broad and complex concept which varies its understanding according to different cultural, religious and academic backgrounds (i.e., religious persons, scientists, or lay persons; Koenig, 2008; la Cour and Götke, 2012).
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However, professional medical chaplains are trained in ways specific to the health care setting, orienting their services more to the needs of the patient rather than their own interpretation of religion or spirituality. 7 Susan Harris pulls from personal experiences to write about the unique role of hospital chaplains in mediating between patients’ families and physicians when discussing ...
