Hospital Handbook on Multiculturalism and Religion
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kirkwood, Neville A., PUBLISHER: Morehouse Publishing, In our religiously pluralistic society, clergy, medical and nursing staffs in modern ong>hospitalong>s are confronted with caring for people with varied beliefs and customs. Since ong>theong> overall care ong>ofong> a patient, and not just ong>theong> surgeries performed or medicines given, affect an individual's recovery, it is vitally important to be familiar with cultural and religious understandings and expectations around hygiene, pastoral care, autopsies, transfusions, and even ong>theong> practices associated with death itself. A ong>Hospitalong> Handbook on Multiculturalism and Religion is a succinct guide to ong>theong> care ong>ofong> patients from a variety ong>ofong> faith perspectives: Christian, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhist, B'hai, and oong>theong>rs. Each chapter examines not only ong>theong> customs ong>theong>mselves, but ong>theong> significance ong>ofong> certain rites and attitudes, supplying health care workers and chaplains with ong>theong> information ong>theong>y need to provide ong>theong> best care possible.