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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: spirit of global health
    sub title: the World Health Organization and the 'spiritual dimension' of health, 1946-2021
  name:
    name part: Peng-Keller, Simon
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Winiger, Fabian
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rauch, Raphael
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (colour)
  abstract: "Since the beginning of the World Health Organization, many of its staff members, regional offices, Member States, and directors-general have grappled with the question of what a 'spiritual dimension' of health looks like, and how it might enrich the health policies advocated by their organization. Contrary to the widespread perception that 'spirituality' is primarily related to palliative care and has emerged relatively recently within the WHO, this book shows that its history is considerably longer and more complex, and has been closely connected to the organization's ethical aspirations, its quest for more holistic and equitable healthcare, and its struggle with the colonial legacy of international health organizations. Such ideals and struggles silently motivated many of its key actors and policies--such as the provision of universal primary healthcare--which for decades have embodied the organization's loftiest aspirations. The WHO's official relationship with 'spirituality' advanced in fits, leaps, and setbacks. At times creative and interdisciplinary, at others deeply political, this process was marked by cycles of institutional forgetting and remembering. Rather than a triumph of religious lobbyists, this book argues, the 'spiritual dimension' of health may be better understood as a 'ghost' that has haunted--and continues to haunt--the WHO as it comes to terms with its mandate of advancing health as a state of 'complete well-being' available to all"--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Holistic Ideals and the 'Spirit' of International Health -- 3. Ennobling Ideas: The World Health Assembly Debates the 'Spiritual Dimension' (1983-1984) -- 4. From Religious Revival to Health Policy: The WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Office (1981-2006) -- 5. The Spirituality of Others and the WHO Discourse on Traditional Medicine -- 6. Spiritual Care in the Context of Palliative Care and HIV/AIDS -- 7. Spirituality, Religiousness, and Personal Beliefs in the WHO's Quality of Life Measurement Instrument (WHOQOL-SRPB) -- 8. Attempts to Reform the WHO Definition of Health (1997-1999) -- 9. Developments in the New Millennium -- 10. Synthesis and Outlook: The Spiritual Dimension in Global Health -- Epilogue: The WHO and Religious Actors during the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Appendix 1: Chronicle of Events -- Index.
  note: Simon Peng-Keller, Fabian Winiger, Raphael Rauch.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: World Health Organization
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Spirituality
    topic: Health aspects
  subject:
    topic: Health
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Spiritual care (Medical care)
  subject:
    topic: Religion and Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Santé
    topic: Aspect religieux
  subject:
    topic: Médecine
    topic: Aspect religieux
  subject:
    topic: Soins spirituels cliniques
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Alternative medicine
  subject:
    topic: Holistic medicine
  subject:
    topic: Spiritual care (Medical care)
  subject:
    topic: Spirituality
  subject:
    topic: Therapeutics, Physiological
  classification: R733
  classification: BL65.M4 P387 2022
  classification: 610
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    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
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    identifier: (DLC) 2022932835
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 220614
    record change date: 20260318164537.8
    record identifier: in00005697432
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng