Hostility to Hospitality
Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine
Michael J. Balboni and Tracy A. Balboni
Reviews and Awards
"It is a great book and worth engaging with, especially engaging on those parts with which I disagree! For it is only through disagreement and dialogue that we gain further enlightenment on this important topic." -- Alan Gijsbers, Christian Journal for Global Health
"An audience of theologians, pastoral care workers and Palliative care physicians would gain some insights from this book. It is a subject that is receiving more attention and a distinction between spirituality and religion is being more widely recognized." -- Dr Sue Colen, CPCRE Newsletter
"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
