David Aldridge

Spirituality, Healing and Medicine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aldridge evaluates the existing literature from across the disciplines to ascertain just how effective spiritual healing may be on the patient's well-being. He encourages us to redefine treatment strategies and our understanding of health, and argues that the spiritual elements of experience help the patient to find purpose, meaning and hope.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781853025549
• ISBN-10: 1853025542
• Artikelnr.: 21849683

Autorenporträt

David Aldridge is Professor of Qualitative Research in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Witten-Herdecke. He is author of Music Therapy Research and Practice in Medicine: From Out of the Silence (1996) and Suicide: The Tragedy of Hopelessness (1998) also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Healing narratives in the context of a performed life. 2. Meaning,
purpose and power. 3. Religion: The everyday forms of spiritual life. 4.
Lifestyle, charismatic ideology and a praxis aesthetic. 5. Lost and found.
The perpetual story. 6. Prayer and healing. 7. Pluralism and treatment:
Healing today. Index.