The Rebirth of the Clinic

"Much of today's disquiet with medicine's triumphs is the gap they leave between curing disease and healing persons. In this incisive, scientifically and spiritually sound analysis, Sulmasy examines the meanings, values, and foundations of the current rubric of spirituality and health as well as its educational and practical implications." —Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., chair of the President's Council on Bioethics

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

xi

Part I. Rebirth in the Clinic

1 Why Surgeons Must Be Very Careful

3

(10)

2 Is Health Care a Spiritual Practice?

13

(11)

3 Dignity, Vulnerability, and the Personhood of the Patient

24

(20)

4 The Wisdom of Ben Sira

44

(16)

5 The Dialectic of Healing

60

(29)

6 Taking Physicians' Oaths Seriously

89

(26)

Part II. The Book of Numbers: Empirical Research on Spirituality and Healing

7 What the Data Cannot Mean

115

(6)

8 A Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model of Health Care

121

(26)

9 Scientific Studies of the Healing Power of Prayer

147

(14)

10 Is There a Moral Obligation to Address the Spiritual Needs of Patients?

161

(28)

Part III. At the Threshold of Death

11 On Praying for a Cure

189

(8)

12 Healing the Dying

197

(16)

13 At Wt's End

213

(11)

14 Peg

224

(13)

Postscript: Is There Life after the Clinic?

237

(2)

Index

239

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The Rebirth of the Clinic

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