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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Religion and Medicine"”.
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Physician and patient interactions : the role of beliefs and values in directing clinical conversations.
… dissertation examines how physicians' beliefs and values influence the content of their conversations with patients. After an introductory chapter, chapter two primarily provides an overview of the data and the religious beliefs and practices of physicians in the United States. Physicians in …
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Childbirth Beliefs and Practices in England, c. 1400-1580
This thesis examines the therapeutic texts and objects that women used in childbirth in England from 1400 to 1580. Faced with the dangers of parturiency, women employed a set of practices which they believed would ensure their survival. Using an interdisciplinary approach influenced by histories of …
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Living Out Loud: The Mythopoetics of Bodily Representation in the Works of George Sand
… of the body in the works of George Sand. While the body as a subject of analysis in literary studies is well established, Sand’s novels are generally reduced to a sentimental or idealist mode of writing whose focus is on the inner, emotional life of an individual. Moreover, where …
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From isolation to incorporation : medical-theological imagery in the work of T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, and Gwyneth Lewis.
… Chirurgus) imagery in the work of three modern and contemporary British Christian authors: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) and Gwyneth Lewis (b.1959). Through a detailed analysis of each author's medical-theological imagery, I argue that all three authors interweave medical and …
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Nurses' Responses to Patients' Spiritual Needs
… enabled the students to recognize these needs and, (3) to identify the spiritual care given to patients by students during their regular nursing assignments.</p> <p>Thirty-seven senior students, enrolled in the baccalaureate programs of three Seventh-day Adventists colleges, used a …
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Medicine's Eschatological Narrative and the Challenge of Elder Suffering
This dissertation uses texts and methods of the medical humanities to interrogate the troubled relationship between modern American medicine and the mystery of human suffering. Methods used include conceptual analysis, close reading and comparison of historical texts, and narrative interpretation. …
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Religious Coping Among People of Individuals with HIV/AIDS
<p>This study examined how religion affects one’s psychological health as he/she deals with life crisis. Religious coping strategies explained variance above and beyond demographics variables. Although religious and spiritual beliefs and practices have been frequently associated with greater …
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Religious Coping and Depression in Home Care Patients
… impact of a medical illness in 36 elderly male and female home health care patients with a primary diagnosis of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and how they coped with their medical condition. Relationships between depression and religious coping, …
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Religious Commitment as a Predictor of Health Behavior and Health Status in a Selected Population
<p>Religious beliefs and behaviors are multidimensional and they profoundly determine the ways we respond to health and illness, suffering and death. Researchers have designed numerous scales to measure different dimensions of religious commitment, beliefs and behaviors. A thorough review of the …
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The Association of Religious Coping on Reports of Low Back Pain and Inflammatory Markers
… in the United States with depression, anxiety, and stress often occurring co-morbidly. The purpose of the study was to explore how religion may modulate the frequency of back pain, influence inflammatory markers, influence the use of medications, and impact functional ability.</p> …
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Association Between Obesity, Depression, and Inflammation Among Seventh-day Adventists in the Biopsychosocial Religion and Health Study
<p>The effects of obesity and depression on morbidity and mortality may be mediated by inflammatory processes. Homeostasis within the immune system depends on a balance of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokine molecules, so chronic inflammatory diseases may result from cytokine …
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Nurses' Spiritual Care Practices: Assessment, Type, Frequency, and Correlates
… study described the type, frequency, and correlates of nurses' spiritual care practices (quantitative) and their experiences with the sacred at work (qualitative). A convenience sample of 554 (24%) of the Registered Nurses employed at a western United States faith-based tertiary care …
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Creating a Healing Environment: Strategies Christian Nurses Use
… concepts of nurse, person, environment, and health are the conceptual building blocks which provide direction to nursing research and knowledge development (Fawcett & Desnato-Madeya, 2013). Interaction of person, nurse and environment facilitate optimal outcomes yet, there remains a need …
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Healing the Effects of Medical Errors: A Vision of Justice as Wholeness
… completely even when employing the greatest care and applying the most sophisticated medical technologies. They occur when organizational, human, technical, or environmental factors lead to unintentional failures which result in recognizable physical, mental, spiritual, or social harm to patients. …
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Spirituality, Religiosity, and Weight Management in Black Women
… is a major concern in the United States and Black Americans are among those with the highest rates of overweight, obesity, and related co- morbidities. While weight loss among Black women has been studied within the context of a faith-based setting, there is little information about the …