Partnership with the Dying: Where Medicine and Ministry Should Meet

by David H. Smith

What do physicians, nurses, chaplains, and social workers think about moral and religious issues in care for the dying? These professionals live with death, including many untimely and difficult deaths, on a daily basis. Based on intensive interviews with a cross sample of health care professionals, David H. Smith details how the churches could not only be supportive of these primary caregivers in dealing with end of life issues, but how they could...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742544672
• ISBN13: 9780742544673
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 8.5"