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Doctor, will you pray for me? : medicine, chaplains, and healing the whole person /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klitzman, Robert (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Pastoral care.
Clergy.
Spirituality.
Spiritual healing.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Pastoral Care
Clergy
Spirituality
Faith Healing
Religion and Medicine
Soins pastoraux.
Clergé.
Spiritualité.
Guérison par la foi.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
clergy.
MEDICAL.
Terminal Care.
Ethics.
Religion & beliefs.
Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 313 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780197750872
0197750877
9780197750858
0197750850
9780197750865
0197750869