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SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH CARE: A GUIDE TO INFORMATION RESOURCES

KCMA Online Catalog

Useful SUBJECT HEADINGS for this topic:

MeSH Subject Headings
Religion
Religion and medicine
Holistic health
Holistic nursing
Spiritualism
 
 
LC Subject Headings
Health--religious aspects
Holistic nursing
Medical care--religious aspects
Medicine--religious aspects
Nursing--religious aspects
Spiritual healing
Spirituality--health aspects

Useful CALL NUMBERS on this subject:
NLM Call NumbersLC Call Numbers
W60Medical EthicsBL53Religion and Psychology
WB880Mental HealingBL65 .M4Religion and medicine
WB885Faith HealingBL115 .M25Christianity and Medicine
WM61Partoral CareBT732Doctrinal theology: Man is health and sickness
WM75Popular topics in PsychiatryBV4012Pastoral Psychology and psychiatry
WY86.5Holistic NursingBX6193 .W5Writings of Helen G. White

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REFERENCE RESOURCES

R W50 R279 2003Religious Traditions and Healthcare Decisions
R W50 R279 2003Religious Traditions and Healthcare Decisions
R WB880 K78h 2001Handbook of Religion and Health
R WZ 330 R822e 2000Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud

FIND ARTICLES

PERIODICAL INDEXES/DATABASES
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Academic Search Complete
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering a wide variety of academic areas of study
Alt-Health Watch
Full text articles from 170+ peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association & consumer newsletters on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care
ATLA Religion Database
Index to articles, book reviews, and essays in religion and theology
CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health)
Index to over 500 nursing and health publications
Electronic Journals Center
Full-text indexing service for over 2000 online scholarly and research journals
Arts and Humanities, Science, and Social Science Citation Indexes
Covers over 1100 journals in the arts and humanities, 6,000 major journals in over 150 scientific disciplines and 1,700 scholarly social sciences journals in 50 related disciplines
Health Source (Academic)
Provides access to nearly 590 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 627 journals
MEDLINE
International index to journals in medicine
Religion and Philosophy Collection
A comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy with over 290 full text journals
PsychINFO
Provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the behavioral and mental health sciences
Psychology and Behavioral Science
A comprehensive database with more than 510 full text titles covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods
Periodicals available in the KCMA library
Journal of Christian Nursing
Making the Rounds in Health, Faith, & Ethics (1995-1996)
Second Opinion (incomplete holdings through 1995)
Periodicals available through the Electronic Journal Center
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Journal of Religion and Health

INTERNET RESOURCES ON THIS TOPIC
Below are some related sites on the World Wide Web:
The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health
http://www.gwish.org/
"The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) is a university-based organization working toward a more compassionate system of healthcare."

University of Washington School of Medicine: Spirituality and Medicine
http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/spirit.html
This web site is intended to assist physicians in finding "ways to engage the spiritual beliefs of patients in the healing process, and come to a clearer understanding of ways in which the physician's own belief system can be accounted for in transactions with patients."

Center for the Study of Religion, Spirituality and Health
http://www.dukespiritualityandhealth.org/
"The purpose of the Center is to conduct research on the effects of religion (or spirituality) on physical and mental health. "

Spirituality and Health at Medical University of South Carolina
http://www.musc.edu/dfm/Spirituality/Spirituality.htm
The Spirituality and Health Interest Group at MUSC is a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students who are interested in encouraging education and research regarding spirituality and health matters.

Interfaith Health Program
http://www.ihpnet.org/
"The Interfaith Health Program was launched in 1992 at The Carter Center following major national studies which identified the key role of faith groups in advancing health of individuals and communities especially through prevention and health promotion."