Faith, Spirituality, and Medicine: Toward the Making of the Healing Practitioner

by Dana E. King and Harold G Koenig

Book Overview

Understand and make use of the connections between health and religion to improve your practice Research points to a clear link between people's religious beliefs and practices and their health. These developments have ushered in a new era in health care, in which meaning and purpose stand alongside biology as vital factors in health outcomes. Now the gap is closing between medicine and religion, as evidenced by the more than 60 US medical school...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789011158
• ISBN13: 9780789011152
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.4"