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Author: Wendy Cadge
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While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of miraculous, religion still plays an important role in the past and present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of Americans believe that God can cure people who have been given little or no chance of survival by their doctors, how do today’s technologically sophisticated health care organizations address spirituality and faith?
Through a combination of interviews with nurses, doctors, and chaplains across the United States and close observation of their daily routines, Wendy Cadge takes readers inside major academic medical institutions to explore how today’s doctors and hospitals address prayer and other forms of religion and spirituality. From chapels to intensive care units to the morgue, hospital caregivers speak directly in these pages about how religion is part of their daily work in visible and invisible ways. In Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine, Cadge shifts attention away from the ongoing controversy about whether faith and spirituality should play a role in health care and back to the many ways that these powerful forces already function in healthcare today.
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- Print Length: 306 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0226922111
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 1 edition (January 18, 2013)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B00AOJ9IKK
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Free Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine
Health-care is a near universal value in America with average per person spending climbing over $8,000. While the percentage of Americans who are religiously non-affiliated has risen significantly in recent years, the vast majority of Americans are religious with nearly 75% of the population identifying with a Christian tradition (49.5% Protestant or non-denominational and 25.1% Catholic according to the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey). In light of these overlapping realities, academic interest in the relationship between religion and health has increased in recent years across many disciplines.
Cadge moves beyond the most common research involving patient outcomes to explore "how religion and spirituality are actually present in the day-to-day workings of health-care organizations" (p.6). Her research includes an exploration of seventeen highly ranked academic hospitals that considers how religion and spirituality are addressed in these settings. Additionally, she spent a year learning more about the chaplaincy department of one hospital. Given the complexity of legal and other issues involved in seeking patient access, she focused on the experiences through the eyes of staff, especially chaplains. While the chaplaincy programs (a traditional name no longer in use at all of the facilities she visited) and the staff (a group that often includes both students and volunteers in addition to professional chaplains) that comprise them remains the most visible conduits of religion and spirituality their limited number ensures that a great deal of religious and spiritual experience happens outside of the presence of a chaplain.