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Hostility To Hospitality : Spirituality And Professional Socialization Within Medicine by Michael J. Balboni & Tracy A. Balboni is a health book available to read on EtoBox.

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Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power—an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion and spirituality, which too often remind us of our mortality. As a result of this separation of medicine from spiritual traditions, patients facing serious illness infrequently receive adequate spiritual care despite the large body of empirical data demonstrating its import to patient meaning-making, quality of life, and medical utilization. This secular–sacred divide also unleashes depersonalizing social forces through the market, technology, and legal-bureaucratic powers that reduce clinicians to tiny cogs in an unstoppable machine. Hostility to Hospitality is one of the first books of its kind to explore these hostilities threatening medicine and offer a path forward for the partnership of modern medicine and spirituality. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship including empirical studies, interviews, history and sociology, theology, and public policy, the authors argue for structural pluralism as the missing piece to changing hostility to hospitality.

Who reads Hostility To Hospitality : Spirituality And Professional Socialization Within Medicine?

Author

Michael J. Balboni & Tracy A. Balboni

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199325764

Category

health

Subjects

Medical, Science, Medicine

Rating

4.4 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14