| Description |
xv, 1169 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
1. Background -- 2. Debating religion's effects on health -- 3. Research on religion and mental health -- 4. Research on religion and physical health -- 5. Understanding the religion-physical health relationship -- Conclusions |
| Summary |
The Handbook of Religion and Health has become the seminal research text on religion, spirituality, and health, outlining a rational argument for the connection between religion and health. The 2nd Edition is a complete revision and updated. The authors are physicians: a psychiatrist and geriatrician, a primary care physician, and a professor of nursing and specialist in mental health nursing. This edition surveys the historical connections between religion and health and grapples with the distinction between the terms ''religion'' and ''spirituality'' in research and clinical practice. It reviews research on religion and mental health, as well as extensive research literature on the mind-body relationship, and develops a model to explain how religious involvement may impact physical health through the mind-body mechanisms. It also explores the direct relationships between religion and physical health, covering such topics as immune and endocrine function, heart disease, hypertension and stroke, neurological disorders, cancer, and infectious diseases; and examines the consequences of illness including chronic pain, disability, and quality of life |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: published as by Harold G. Koenig, Michael E. McCullough, David B. Larson. 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Religious aspects.
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Healing in the Bible.
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Healing -- Religious aspects.
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Health -- Religious aspects.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects.
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Psychology, Religious.
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Spiritual healing.
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| Author |
Carson, Verna Benner.
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King, Dana E., 1956-
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| LC no. |
2010050675 |
| ISBN |
9780195335958 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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