Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare [Hardcover]

"Either Cobb (Sheffield Teach Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK), Puchalski (George Washington Univ.), and Rumbold (La Trobe Univ., Australia) along with 78 highly qualified colleagues around the globe have produced a concise and currently peerless representation of spirituality and health as an integral part of clinical practice and as an emerging field for interdisciplinary research... In short, this is a landmark volume that merits a place in any health sciences or religious studies library collection. Summing Up: Essential. Students of all levels, researchers/ faculty and professionals/practitioners." -G.R Thursby, CHOICE

Mark Cobb is a Senior Chaplain and a Clinical Director at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UK) and holds honorary academic posts at the University of Sheffield and the University of Liverpool. He has a multidisciplinary education across science and the humanities and has experience working in the community, voluntary and acute health sectors. Christina Puchalski, MD, MS, FACP, is the founding Director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) in Washington, D.C. and a Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences at The George Washington University. She developed the FICA spiritual assessment tool, used around the world. Her work continues to break ground in the clinical, academic, and pastoral understanding of spiritual care as an essential element of healthcare.Her many accolades include the 2009 George Washington University Distinguished Alumni Award and 2011 Outstanding Colleague Award from the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of Alpha Omega Alpha (A?A) medical honor society and the Secular Discalced Carmelites, a contemplative lay order. Dr. Puchalski has authored many publications and been featured in numerous print and television media. Bruce Rumbold is Director of the Palliative Care Unit at La Trobe University, Melbourne, where his responsibilities include coordinating health promoting palliative care and spiritual care academic programs alongside developing public health approaches to end of life care. His multidisciplinary interests are supported by postgraduate qualifications in physics, practical theology and health social science. Prior to joining La Trobe he was from 1986-2002 foundation professor of pastoral studies at Whitley College, an affiliated teaching institution of the Melbourne College of Divinity. Social determinants of end of life experience, and spiritual care, are the particular foci of his current work