Health Care and Spirituality: Listening, Assessing, Caring Book

	Introduction	xiii
	Transversing Purgatory (Poem)	xix
Section 1	Health Care and Spirituality: Professional Perspectives
Chapter 1	A Nurse's Perspective	3
Chapter 2	A Chaplain's Perspective: The Early Years	15
Chapter 3	A Chaplain's Perspective: The Challenge for Today	21
Chapter 4	A Beginning Examination of the Spirituality of Health Care Professionals	37
Section 2	Health Care and Spirituality: Belief System Perspectives
Chapter 5	Dying and Grieving are Journeys of the Spirit	53
Chapter 6	Spiritual Care in the New Pluralistic Context	65
Chapter 7	The Roman Catholic Patient	75
Chapter 8	The Jewish Patient	89
Section 3	Health Care and Spirituality: Ethnic and Gender Perspectives
Chapter 9	The Native American Patient	107
Chapter 10	The Male Patient	129
Chapter 11	The Female Patient	145
Chapter 12	The Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgendered Patient	153
Section 4	Health Care and Spirituality: Patient Perspectives
Chapter 13	The Medical Patient: Compassionate Listening and Spirit-Mind-Body Care of Medical Patients	163
Chapter 14	The Chronically Ill Patient	179
Chapter 15	The HIV-AIDS Patient: Holier than Thou	189
	Variance (Poem)	201
Chapter 16	The Alzheimer's Patient	203
Chapter 17	The Obstetrics Patient	211
Chapter 18	The Trauma Patient	235
Chapter 19	The Addicted Patient	245
Chapter 20	The Terminally Ill Pediatric Patient	257
Chapter 21	The Terminally Ill Adult Patient	269
Chapter 22	The Victim of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault	281
	Symphony (Poem)	291
	Contributors	293
	Index	299