Spirituality is essential to healthcare. It is that part of human beings that seeks meaning and
purpose in life. Spirituality in the clinical setting can be manifested as spiritual distress or as …

Aims. To offer a detailed discussion of the issue of 'lack of critique'in the literature on
spirituality in nursing. The discussion will include the limited use of sources from theology …

Life-threatening illness is an assault on the whole person—physical, psychological, social,
and spiritual. It frequently presents caregiver and sufferer with a paradox—suffering does not …

In this article I focus on what it means to have a dual identity as a practitioner and a
researcher within an ethnographic research study in the context of a hospice. I discuss …

Humanistic principles are a core part of social work, and they always have been. The aim of
this book is to spell them out and interpret them for social work in the twenty-first century …

The vast majority of contributions to the literature on spirituality in nursing make extravagant
claims about transcendence, eternity, the numinous, higher powers, higher levels of …

A recent study shows that the greatest fear for many Britons is to die alone. More than half
the complaints received by the UK National Health Service (NHS) concern end-of-life care …

Background: Although it is widely acknowledged that spiritual care is an important
component of good palliative care, there remains a lack of confidence about it among …

'In a book that is replete with illustrative case studies, Linda Machin draws together the
findings of a wide range of psychological and sociological theory and research in order to …

CONTEXT: Spirituality is a distinctive subject within palliative care practice and literature, but
research to date is relatively undeveloped in this field and studies often throw more light on …