Michael J. Balboni, Tracy A. Balboni

Hostility to Hospitality (eBook, ePUB)

Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power-an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion, which too often reminds us of our mortality. As a result of this separation of medicine and religion, patients facing serious illness infrequently receive adequate spiritual care, despite the large body of empirical data demonstrating its import to patient meaning-making, quality of life, and medical utilization. This secular-sacred divide also unleashes depersonalizing, social forces through the market, technology, and legal-bureaucratic powers that reduce clinicians to tiny cogs in an unstoppable machine. Hostility to Hospitality is one of the first books of its kind to explore these hostilities threatening medicine and offer a path forward for the partnership of modern medicine and spirituality. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship including empirical studies, interviews, history and sociology, theology, and public policy, the authors argue for structural pluralism as the key to changing hostility to hospitality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199325788
• Artikelnr.: 54602273

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Balboni, PhD is on faculty at Harvard University and a theologian-in-residence in the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston. His social science research has centered on the intersection of spirituality and medicine. He serves as a congregational minister at Park Street Church and the Longwood Christian Community. Tracy A. Balboni, MD is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and serves as the Clinical Director of the Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology Service at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham & Women's Hospital. She is an internationally recognized leader and researcher at the intersection of spirituality, palliative care, and oncology.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Introduction: A Rising Hostility in American Medicine
* Part I. Empirical and Sociological Perspectives on the Separation of
Medicine and Spirituality
* 2. The Spiritual Event of Serious Illness
* 3. Spirituality and End-of-Life Outcomes
* 4. The Frequency of Spiritual Care at the End of Life
* 5. What Hinders Spiritual Care? Empirical Explanations
* 6. Social Structures Separating Medicine and Religion
* 7. The Secular-Sacred Divide in Medicine
* Part II. Theological Perspectives on the Separation of Medicine and
Spirituality
* 8. Defining Religion and Spirituality
* 9. Toward a Theology of Medicine
* 10. Theology within the Patient-Clinician Relationship
* 11. The Sacramental Nature of Medicine
* 12. A Spirituality of Immanence
* Part III. Restoring Hospitality to Medicine
* 13. Why Medicine Should Resist Immanence
* 14. Problematic Rapprochement Strategies
* 15. Structural Pluralism for Medicine and Religion
* 16. From Hostility to Hospitality