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.

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.

• 1. Introduction: A Rising Hostility in American Medicine Part I. Empirical and Sociological Perspectives on the Separation of Medicine & Spirituality2. The Spiritual Event of Serious Illness3. Spirituality and End-of-Life Outcomes4. The Frequency of Spiritual Care at the End of Life5. What Hinders Spiritual Care? Empirical Explanations6. Social Structures Separating Medicine and Religion7. The Secular-Sacred Divide in Medicine Part II. Theological Perspectives on the Separation of Medicine & Spirituality8. Defining Religion and Spirituality9. Toward a Theology of Medicine10. Theology within the Patient-Clinician Relationship11. The Sacramental Nature of Medicine12. A Spirituality of Immanence Part III. Restoring Hospitality to Medicine13. Why Medicine Should Resist Immanence14. Problematic Rapprochement Strategies15. Structural Pluralism for Medicine and Religion16. From Hostility to Hospitality

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.

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.

• 1. Introduction: A Rising Hostility in American Medicine Part I. Empirical and Sociological Perspectives on the Separation of Medicine & Spirituality2. The Spiritual Event of Serious Illness3. Spirituality and End-of-Life Outcomes4. The Frequency of Spiritual Care at the End of Life5. What Hinders Spiritual Care? Empirical Explanations6. Social Structures Separating Medicine and Religion7. The Secular-Sacred Divide in Medicine Part II. Theological Perspectives on the Separation of Medicine & Spirituality8. Defining Religion and Spirituality9. Toward a Theology of Medicine10. Theology within the Patient-Clinician Relationship11. The Sacramental Nature of Medicine12. A Spirituality of Immanence Part III. Restoring Hospitality to Medicine13. Why Medicine Should Resist Immanence14. Problematic Rapprochement Strategies15. Structural Pluralism for Medicine and Religion16. From Hostility to Hospitality

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.

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.

• 1. Introduction: A Rising Hostility in American Medicine Part I. Empirical and Sociological Perspectives on the Separation of Medicine & Spirituality2. The Spiritual Event of Serious Illness3. Spirituality and End-of-Life Outcomes4. The Frequency of Spiritual Care at the End of Life5. What Hinders Spiritual Care? Empirical Explanations6. Social Structures Separating Medicine and Religion7. The Secular-Sacred Divide in Medicine Part II. Theological Perspectives on the Separation of Medicine & Spirituality8. Defining Religion and Spirituality9. Toward a Theology of Medicine10. Theology within the Patient-Clinician Relationship11. The Sacramental Nature of Medicine12. A Spirituality of Immanence Part III. Restoring Hospitality to Medicine13. Why Medicine Should Resist Immanence14. Problematic Rapprochement Strategies15. Structural Pluralism for Medicine and Religion16. From Hostility to Hospitality