Your Health: A Sacred Matter—Further Reading

Balboni M, Peteet J. Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine: From Evidence to Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Brenner DS, Blanchard T, Fins JJ, Hirshfield B.  Embracing Life and Facing Death:  A Jewish Guide to Palliative Care.  New York:  CLAL, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, 2005.

Bulka RP. Judaism on Illness and Suffering. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Publishers, 1998.

Carson B. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1990.

Coakley S, Collins S, Clayston J, eds.  Religion and the Body, New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1997.

Fadiman A. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1997.

Ferngren GB, Lomperis EN. Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

Ferngren GB. Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Frank AW. At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness. New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 2002.

Fetzer Institute/National Institute on Aging Working Group. Multidimensional measurement of religiousness/spirituality for use in health research.  Kalamazoo, MI: Fetzer Institute, 1999.

Groopman J. The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness. New York: Random House, 2003.

Hauerwas S. God, Medicine, and Suffering. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B Eerdmans, 1994.

Hauerwas, S. Suffering Presence: Theological Reflections on Medicine, the Mentally Handicapped, and the Church. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986.

Haynes WF, Kelly GB. Is There a God in Health Care? Toward a New Spirituality of Medicine. New York: Hayworth Pastoral Press, 2006.

Hinnells, JR, Porter R, eds. Religion, Health, and Suffering: A Cross-Cultural Study of Attitudes to Suffering and the Implications for Medicine in a Multi-Religious Society. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1999.

Kearney M. Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing.  New York: Touchstone, 1996.

Kirkwood NA. A Hospital Handbook on Multiculturism and Religion. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 1993.

Koenig HA. Spirituality in Patient Care: What, When, Where, and Why, 3rd ed. Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2013.

Kuhl D. What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life.  New York: Public Affairs, 2002.

Kushner H.  When Bad Things Happen To Good People. New York: Quill, Harper Collins, 2001.

Lazenby M, McCorkle R, Sulmasy DP, eds. Safe Passage: A Global Spiritual Sourcebook for Care at the End of Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Matthews D, Clark C. The Faith Factor: Proof of the Healing Power of Prayer. New York: Viking, 1998.

Mishra P. An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004.

Mohrmann ME. Attending Children: A Doctor’s Education. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.

Mohrmann ME. Medicine as Ministry: Reflections on Suffering, Ethics and Hope. Cleveland, OH; Pilgrim Press, 1995.

Neuberger J. Caring for Dying People of Different Faiths. London: Austen Cornish Publishers, 1987.

O’Brien ME. The Nurse’s Calling: A Christian Spirituality of Caring for the Sick. New York: Paulist Press, 2001.

Olitzky KM. Jewish Paths toward Healing and Wholeness: A Personal Guide to Dealing with Suffering. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2000.

Park Ridge Center for Health, Faith, and Ethics.  Religious Traditions and Health Care Decisions Handbook Series (18 faith specific volumes). Park Ridge, Illinois: Park Ridge Center, 1999-2002.

Puchalski, C, ed. A Time for Listening and Caring: Spirituality and the Care of the Chronically Ill and Dying. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Remen RN. Kitchen Table Wisdom. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.

 Schimmel S.  Wounds Not Healed by Time: The Power of Repentance and Forgiveness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Shea J. Spirituality and Healthcare: Reaching Towards a Holistic Future. Chicago: The Park Ridge Center, 2000.

Shuman JJ, Meador K. Heal Thyself:  Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Sloan R. Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine. New York: St. Martins, 2006.

Sulmasy DP. The Rebirth of the Clinic: An Introduction to Spirituality in Health Care.  Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.

Sulmasy DP. A Balm for Gilead: Meditations on Spirituality and the Healing Arts. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.

Sulmasy DP. The Healer’s Calling: A Spirituality for Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals.  New York: Paulist Press, 1997.

Thrash SA. Compassionate Caring for the Sick and Dying. Mystic, Ct., Twenty-Third Publications, 2000.

Tolson CL, Koenig HG. The Healing Power of Prayer: The Surprising Connection Between Prayer and Your Health. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2003.

Weintraub SY, Lever A. Guide Me Along the Way: A Jewish Spiritual Companion for Surgery. New York: National Center for Jewish Healing, 2002.


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