Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine
From Evidence to Practice
Edited by Dr Michael Balboni and Dr John Peteet
Author Information
John R. Peteet is a psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has authored or co-edited several books and numerous papers on the clinical interface between spirituality/religion and psychiatry and serves as president of the American Psychiatric Association's Caucus on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry.
Michael J. Balboni is a theologian and social-scientific researcher at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is co-director of the Initiative on Health, Religion, and Spirituality at Harvard University and co-leads the National Conference on Medicine and Religion. His empirical research focuses on describing the spiritual beliefs and practices of patients, clinicians, and religious communities in end-of-life care. His theological work examines religion and spirituality within secular medical contexts, including his forthcoming book with OUP, Hostility to Hospitality, co-written with Tracy Balboni, MD. He is Senior Minister to the Longwood Christian Community, an intentional religious community of healthcare students and professionals in Boston.
Contributors:
Alan Astrow, M.D.
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York
Michael J. Balboni, Ph.D.
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Instructor, Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Tracy Balboni, M.D., M.P.H.
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Radiation Oncology Program
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Ray Barfield, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy
Pediatric Oncology and Palliative Care
Director, Medical Humanities
Trent Center for Bioethics, Medical Humanities, and History of Medicine
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Linda L. Barnes, M.T.S., M.A., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Graduate Division of Religious Studies
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
Sarah Barton, M.S., M.T.S., O.T.R/L.
Duke University Medical Center
Duke Divinity School
Durham, North Carolina
Dan G. Blazer, M.D., Ph.D.
JP Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Alex Cist, M.D.
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Center for Bioethics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Philip Choi, M.D.
Department of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina
Farr A. Curlin, M.D.
Josiah C Trent Professor of Medical Humanities
Co-Director, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Timothy Daaleman, D.O., M.P.H.
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Family Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hhill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Lydia S. Dugdale, M.D.
Assistant Professor and Associate Director for the Program for Biomedical Ethics
Yale School of Medicine
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Gary B. Ferngren, Ph.D.
Professor of History
School of History, Philosophy, and Religion
Sandy and Elva Sanders Eminent Professor
University Honors College
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
Marta Herschkopf, M.D., M.S.t.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Center for Bioethics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Jonathan Imber, Ph.D.
Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology
Wellesley College
Editor-in-Chief, Society
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Warren Kinghorn, M.D., Th.D.
Associate Research Professor of Psychiatry and Pastoral and Moral Theology
Duke Divinity School
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Harold G. Koenig, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Adjunct Professor, King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University
Yinchuan, P.R. China
Lance D. Laird, M.Div, Th.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Graduate Division of Religious Studies
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
James Marcum, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy
Baylor University
Waco, Texas
Brett McCarty
Duke Divinity School
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Michael P. Moreland, M.A., Ph.D., J.D.
Professor of Law
Villanova University
Villanova, Pennsylvania
Kenneth Pargament, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Bowling Green University
Bowling Green, Ohio
Rachel Peragallo, M.D., M.S.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
John R. Peteet, M.D.
Department of Psychaitry
Harvard Medical School
Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Christina Puchalski, M.D., M.S.
The GW Institute for Spirituality & Health
George Washington University
Washington, DC
O. Carter Snead, J.D.
William P. and Hazel B. White Director
Center for Ethics and Culture
Notre Dame Law School
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiania
Daniel P. Sulmasy, M.D., Ph.D.
André Hellengers Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
John Swinton, Ph.D., R.M.N., R.M.N.D.
School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy
King's College
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, United Kingdom
John Tarpley, M.D.
Department of Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee
Margaret Tarpley
Department of Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee
John Thorp, M.D.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Kelly Trevino, Ph.D.
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York Presbyterian Hospital
New York, New York
Lynne Vanderpot, Ph.D.
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Tyler VanderWeele, Ph.D.
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director, Program on Integrative Knowledge and Human Flourishing
Institute of Quantitative Social Science
Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts
