Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine

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Michael J. Balboni (Instructor, Instructor, Harvard Medical School and Congregational Minister in Boston) Tracy A. Balboni (Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School)

Hostility to Hospitality

Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine

Michael J. Balboni (Instructor, Instructor, Harvard Medical School and Congregational Minister in Boston), Tracy A. Balboni (Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School)

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Oxford University Press Inc
30 October 2018

Religion & science; Medical ethics & professional conduct; Oncology; Palliative medicine

Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power-an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion, which too often reminds us of our mortality. As a result of this separation of medicine and religion, patients facing serious illness infrequently receive adequate spiritual care, despite the large body of empirical data demonstrating its importance to patient decision-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 key to changing hostility to hospitality.

By: Michael J. Balboni (Instructor Instructor Harvard Medical School and Congregational Minister in Boston), Tracy A. Balboni (Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 155mm, Width: 231mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199325764
ISBN 10: 0199325766
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 30 October 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael J. Balboni, PhD is on faculty at Harvard University and a theologian-in-residence in the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston. His social science research has centered on the intersection of spirituality and medicine. He serves as a congregational minister at Park Street Church and the Longwood Christian Community. Tracy A. Balboni, MD is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and serves as the Clinical Director of the Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology Service at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham & Women's Hospital. She is an internationally recognized leader and researcher at the intersection of spirituality, palliative care, and oncology.

Reviews for Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine

No matter what your existing stance on the matter is, Hostility to Hospitality reads as an invigorating thought-experiment that may be judged successful merely if readers are willing to consider the underlying grounds for their values and motives as they inform the practice and institutions of medicine (129). Readers of all sorts, from healthcare providers and executives to scholars of the humanities, will benefit from the authors's acute analysis of where religion and healthcare stand today, and where we may drive them tomorrow. -- Avery Glover, Reading Religion If you work in palliative care, this book will emphasise the importance of spiritual care and should be of interest to physicians and nurses as well as chaplains and pastoral care workers. -- Roger Woodruff, International association for hospice and palliative care