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Spirituality and Palliative Care: Social and Pastoral Perspectives provides an overview of issues involved in offering spiritual care in contemporary Western society, with a particular focus on implications for palliative care. This book is shaped by the conviction that palliative care needs to incorporate relevant and informed approaches to spiritual care in order to continue to develop as an holistic, life-affirming discipline. For this to occur, spiritual care should draw upon social and cultural analyses of contemporary spirituality and health care practice and on the resources of various religious traditions. The book seeks to avoid both the apologetic interests inherent in many religious approaches to spiritual care and the individualistic subjective approach that characterises much non-religious writing on spiritual care. Contributors are drawn from the disciplines of health sociology, pastoral care, philosophy, and religious studies. This path-breaking book is invaluable for students practising spiritual care in all disciplines but particularly those in health care, religious studies, or the social sciences. It is also of interest to those in the palliative care field - health care practitioners, managers and educators - who seek a better understanding of the contribution of spiritual care to palliative care.

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The Guidelines alone are worth the cost of the book: they are clearly articulated in plain English, well reasoned and clinically practical. This book should appeal to all who work in palliative care and will be of particular interest to pastoral care workers and others with a special interest in spiritual care. IAHPC Website This is an excellent and accessible collection of essays. I could see it being used both by educators and by palliative care teams, informing a chapter-by-chapter, week-by-week discussion series. Palliative Medicine, 17 When my review copy of this book arrived, it lay on my desk for several weeks before I began to read it seriously. The reason for this is something akin to drinking New World wines - that is, almost all contributions are written by Australians! I expected that the content of its thirteen individual chapters would be a little distant from European or British concerns. I need not have worried. This is possibly the best book on spiritual aspects of palliative care that I have yet come across ... This book is excellent stuff. Perhaps I'll go and open that bottle of Australian Chardonnay I was given the Christmas before last! Hospice Information Bulletin

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