Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains and Healing the Whole Person - Couverture rigide

Klitzman M.D., Robert L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0197750842 ISBN 13 : 9780197750841

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2024

Synopsis

The modern world faces religious, spiritual and existential quandaries, as new technologies redefine the beginnings and ends of life. Excruciating choices arise about when to turn off the machines - whether and when we should "play God." The COVID-19 pandemic made these dilemmas ever more acute. Increasingly, however, public discourse on religion and spirituality is polarized, with evangelicals on one side and vehement atheists on the other.

Psychiatrist and bioethicist Robert Klitzman explores how patients and families struggle to make sense of serious disease and threats of death and other medical crises, seeking hope, purpose and larger connections beyond themselves. Physicians and other clinical staff are frequently uncomfortable with these issues, and chaplains have been filling the void, developing valuable approaches and insights. Most Americans will die in hospitals or nursing homes, and face existential and spiritual quandaries. Many of their prior religious and spiritual beliefs will fall short, and chaplains will often be the ones to assist, partly by reframing narratives and understandings of illness and spirituality. Yet people often know little, if anything, about these professionals. Klitzman presents stories about the spiritual lives of patients and explores the role of chaplains - who they are, what they do and the challenges they face.

Drawing on in-depth interviews and the author's personal experiences, Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? provides vital information that can assist in medical care decisions. Robert Klitzman argues that a better understanding of the relationship between these realms will enable more holistic and humane treatment of patients.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Klitzman, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry in the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health, and the Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University. He has authored or co-authored over 180 scientific articles, and nine books, including When Doctors Become Parents, and has received several awards, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has been a member of the Empire State Stem Cell Commission, and the Research Ethics Advisory Panel of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0197750842
• ISBN 13: 9780197750841
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 324
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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