Book Reviews
Annals of Pharmacotherapy
8/1/2008
I found this book to be both interesting and enjoyable to read. Dr. Koenig has filled it with practical information and clinical examples for managing spiritual issues in a medical setting. I recommend this book to all healthcare providers who want to broaden their ability to treat the whole person. An increased sensitivity to patient spirituality takes both practice and knowledge, and this book serves as a catalyst for both.&mdashKellene M. Lenz, MD
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The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. 196, No. 8
8/1/2008
This is a small book that attempts to do a very large job and succeeds quite well. The book paints the topic of spirituality in clinical health care with a broad brush, but also is comprehensive. It is perhaps best described as a scholarly manual that instructs rather than motivates. However, given the important need to introduce spirituality to health care practitioners, this book is an excellent start.&mdashJoan D. Koss-Chioino, Ph.D.
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www.theanals.com
7/1/2008
I found this book to be both interesting and enjoyable to read. Dr. Koenig has filled it with practical information and clinical examples for managing spiritual issues in a medical setting. I recommend this book to all healthcare providers who want to broaden their ability to treat the whole person. An increased sensitivity to patient spirituality takes both practice and knowledge, and this book serves as a catalyst for both.
Reviewer: Kellene M Lenz MD BCFM, Greater Cincinnati Associated Physicians, Cincinnati, OH.
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Christian Marketplace
6/1/2008
Research shows that an individual’s religious beliefs can have a positive effect on their health and this book seeks to encourage the healthcare professional to take a ’spiritual history’ and to work with the patient’s belief… Overall it is a useful contribution to the debate.
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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
4/2/2008
This book probably won’t "convert" anyone who is not already convinced of the importance of spirituality in patient care, but then it is not meant to do so. It is intended to be a handbook for those who wish to learn more about spirituality and patient care, or for those who seek guidance about performing a spiritual assessment and history. In that, it succeeds. It would make an appropriate reference book in hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities.
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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) - 2008; 299(13)
4/1/2008
In the second edition of his book Spirituality in Patient Care: Why, How, When, and What, Harold Koenig, a psychiatrist and geriatric specialist, emphasizes the importance of taking patients’ spirituality seriously. Since many people turn to spiritual beliefs when they are threatened by illness or loss, the author, well known for his interest in the appropriate inclusion of spirituality in medical care, believes that a health professional (and he usually means a physician by this term) should be the one performing the spiritual assessment and history to optimally care for the patient.
[This book] is intended to be a handbook for those who wish to learn more about spirituality and patient care, or for those who seek guidance about performing a spiritual assessment and history. In that, it succeeds. It would make an appropriate reference book in hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities.
—Pat Fosarelli, MD, DMin, Reviewer, Eumenical Institute
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Religious Studies Review - Vol. 34, No. 1
3/1/2008
This book us a revised and expanded edition of a book that Koenig originally published in 2002… This balanced book is a welcome contribution to the field of religion and health, though it seems that the religion health connection will always remain an open question. Anyone involved with the health profession will find this book interesting and useful.
—Nathan Carlin, Rice University
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Theoforum, Vol. 39
1/1/2008
In short, this is the best and most pedagogical book in the field of spirituality and health care that I have found until now. I strongly recommend it for all those engaged in the field of, and formation in, health care. —Ramon Martinez de Pison
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