Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine
Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine
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寻呼上帝：医学殿堂中的宗教
DOI：
10.5860/choice.51-0308
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
11.8
通讯作者：
Wendy Cadge
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作者：
Wendy Cadge
虽然现代医学常常看起来简直就是奇迹，但宗教在许多医院的过去和现在仍然发挥着重要作用。当四分之三的美国人相信上帝可以治愈那些被医生认为几乎没有生存机会的人时，今天技术先进的医疗机构如何解决精神和信仰问题？通过对美国各地的护士、医生和牧师的采访，以及对他们日常生活的密切观察，温迪·凯奇带领读者进入主要的学术医疗机构，探索今天的医生和医院是如何处理祈祷和其他形式的宗教和精神的。从教堂到重症监护室再到停尸房，医院的护理人员在这些页面上直接谈论宗教如何以有形和无形的方式成为他们日常工作的一部分。在《寻呼上帝》一书中，凯奇将人们的注意力从关于信仰和灵性是否应该在医疗保健中发挥作用的持续争论转移到了这些强大力量在当今医疗保健中已经发挥作用的许多方面。
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, 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.