Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion
Michael H. Cohen
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/2007
Pages: 248
Subject: Health and Fitness, Medical, Law
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807877425
DESCRIPTION
The kind of integrated health care many patients seek dwells in a borderland between the physical and the spiritual, between the quantifiable and the immeasurable, Cohen observes. But the present environment fails to present clear rules for clinicians regarding which therapies to recommend, accept, or discourage, and how to discuss patient requests regarding inclusion of such therapies. Focusing on the social, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions of integrative care and grounding his analysis in the attendant legal, regulatory, and institutional changes, Cohen provides a multidisciplinary examination of the shift to a more fluid, pluralistic health care environment.