Spirituality, Healing and Medicine: Return to the Silence
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Spirituality, Healing and Medicine: Return to the Silence

Spirituality, Healing and Medicine: Return to the Silence

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David Aldridge (Author)  

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The spiritual factors associated with healing are increasingly being acknowledged by modern medicine. Our definition of what constitutes health has expanded beyond the purely medical, yet the delivery of modern medicine to the patient often fails to take this into account. Doctors, anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists have all written on the subject, but thus far the literature has been fragmented between the disciplines. David Aldridge presents the first unified approach to the subject. In Spirituality, Healing and Medicine he evaluates the existing literature from across the disciplines to ascertain just how effective and influential spiritual healing may be on the patient's physical and psychological well-being. He encourages us to redefine treatment strategies and the ways in which we understand health, and argues that the spiritual elements of experience help the patient to find purpose, meaning and hope in the face of sickness. It is in the understanding of suffering and the need for deliverance from it, he suggests, that the traditions and aims of medicine and spirituality meet.
David Aldridge is Professor of Qualitative Research in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Witten-Herdecke. He is author of Music Therapy Research and Practice in Medicine: From Out of the Silence (1996) and Suicide: The Tragedy of Hopelessness (1998) also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
  • Contributor: David Aldridge
  • Imprint: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • ISBN13: 9781853025549
  • Number of Pages: 224
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x232x12mm
  • Packaged Weight: 362
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • Release Date: 2000-03-01
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: David Aldridge is Professor of Qualitative Research in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Witten-Herdecke. He is author of Music Therapy Research and Practice in Medicine: From Out of the Silence (1996) and Suicide: The Tragedy of Hopelessness (1998) also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

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