| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Robert G Brooks |
| Author | Harold G Koenig |
| Abstract | Recent debate over the relationship between government and faith-based organizations has renewed interest in the opportunities and challenges that are associated with change in this area of health care policy. Experience exists already that faith-based organizations can provide effective health education and services in the community. Limited infrastructure and liability are among the important barriers to their expansion. Spurred by the demographics of an aging population and increasing health care costs, we argue the necessity of further partnering, within well-defined limits, to maximize the availability of health care education and services throughout this nation. |
| Publication | International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 223-234 |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal Abbr | Int J Psychiatry Med |
| ISSN | 0091-2174 |
| Short Title | Crossing the secular divide |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12489698 |
| Accessed | Thu Nov 12 23:02:13 2009 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 12489698 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Michael H. Cohen |
| Publication | Journal of Law and Religion |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 373-426 |
| Date | 2002 - 2003 |
| ISSN | 07480814 |
| Short Title | Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1602269 |
| Accessed | Tue Oct 27 22:25:00 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 2002 - 2003 / Copyright © 2002 Journal of Law and Religion, Inc. |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Tom Davis |
| Place | New Brunswick N.J. |
| Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
| Date | 2005 |
| ISBN | 9780813534930 |
| Short Title | Sacred work |
| Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Fred M Frohock |
| Series | Morality and society |
| Place | Chicago |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
| Date | 1992 |
| ISBN | 0226265846 |
| Short Title | Healing Powers |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | R733 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Michael S. Goldstein |
| Abstract | Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is increasingly utilized and accepted by patients and providers throughout the American health care system. Most accounts attribute this growing acceptability to the shortcomings of conventional medicine, the appeal of CAM's core beliefs, and the growing body of research indicating that CAM actually works. These explanations, while all accurate to some degree, neglect the extent to which CAM's recent success is due to economic and political factors. This article describes the emerging relationship between CAM and major economic actors (pharmaceutical firms, managed care companies, insurance companies, media conglomerates, Internet providers, etc.) as well as CAM's relationship with a range of political forces (political parties, bureaucrats, lobbying groups, ethnic- and gender-based movements and organizations, etc.). The convergence of interests between these economic and political forces and many of CAM's goals is one important reason for CAM's recent success. |
| Publication | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
| Volume | 583 |
| Pages | 44-63 |
| Date | Sep., 2002 |
| ISSN | 00027162 |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1049688 |
| Accessed | Tue Oct 13 00:59:26 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Global Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Full publication date: Sep., 2002 / Copyright © 2002 American Academy of Political and Social Science |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | M.S. Goldstein |
| Author | C Sutherland |
| Author | D.T. Jaffe |
| Author | J Wilson |
| Abstract | Although loosely defined, holistic or alternative medicine has been viewed by most observers as fundamentally at odds with mainstream biomedical approaches. Convergence or integration of the two are seen as highly unlikely. We attempt to assess the potential for such integration empirically through a survey of physicians, members of the American Holistic Medical Association (N = 340) and a comparison group of family practitioners (N = 142). Although social origins of the two groups are similar, they differ in their completion of residency training and a variety of practice characteristics. While the groups differ in the predicted directions in their evaluation and utilization of holistic techniques and in their attitudes toward the nature of medical practice, there is a good deal of overlap. Personal experiences, especially those in the area of religion/spirituality and psychotherapy differ sharply between the groups. Policy concerned with fostering cooperation or convergence between holistic and mainstream medicine should differentiate between clinical attitudes and behaviors (which appear to be more compatible than has been suggested), and the personal world views of physicians (which appear to be much further apart). |
| Publication | Social Science & Medicine |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 853-61 |
| Date | 1988 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Wayne B. Jonas |
| Abstract | The political and social dynamics around unconventional or complementary and alternative medical practices has shifted from marginalization to a struggle for control of definitions and priorities. These practices have arisen because of public rather than professional or scientific interest. Conventional medicine has made significant gains in health care for acute disease, translating basic science into diagnostic and therapeutic value, and improving public health. These gains have been accompanied by high costs, depersonalization, and side effects. Complementary medicine has aligned with public preferences for more natural, lower-cost, and more holistic health care practices. Attempts to integrate the concepts and practices of complementary and alternative medicine into biomedicine present significant challenges for determining how language, funding, and standards of evidence are established. The author outlines some of the issues that arise in the struggle to integrate these practices into biomedicine and suggests some criteria for establishing priorities when funding research in complementary and alternative medicine. |
| Publication | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
| Volume | 583 |
| Pages | 29-43 |
| Date | Sep., 2002 |
| ISSN | 00027162 |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1049687 |
| Accessed | Tue Oct 13 00:17:07 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Global Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Full publication date: Sep., 2002 / Copyright © 2002 American Academy of Political and Social Science |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | David Jones |
| Place | London; New York |
| Publisher | Continuum |
| Date | 2004 |
| ISBN | 9780826462961 |
| Short Title | The soul of the embryo |
| Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | SA Kaplan |
| Author | C Ruddock |
| Author | M Golub |
| Author | J Davis |
| Author | R Foley |
| Author | C Devia |
| Author | R Rosen |
| Author | C Berry |
| Author | B Barretto |
| Author | T Carter |
| Author | E Irish-Spencer |
| Author | M Marchena |
| Author | E Purcaro |
| Author | N Calman |
| Abstract | This case study provides a mid-course assessment of the Bronx Health REACH faith-based initiative four years into its implementation. The study uses qualitative methods to identify lessons learned and to reflect oil the benefits and challenges of using a community-based participatory approach for the development and evaluation of a faith-based program designed to address health disparities. Key findings concern the role of pastoral leadership, the importance of providing a religious context for health promotion and health equality messages, the challenges of creating a bilingual/bi-cultural program, and the need to provide management support to the lay program coordinators. The study also identifies lessons learned about community-based evaluation and the importance of addressing community concern about the balance between evaluation and program. Finally, the study identifies the challenges that lie ahead, including issues of program institutionalization and sustainability. |
| Publication | Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1111-1123 |
| Date | Nov 2009 |
| ISSN | 1049-2089 |
| Short Title | Stirring up the Mud |
| URL | http://apps.isiknowledge.com.ezproxy.bu.edu/full_record.do? product=WOS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&qid=6&… |
| Accessed | Wed Dec 2 21:29:57 2009 |
| Library Catalog | ISI Web of Knowledge |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:05:21 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:05:21 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | C Koop |
| Place | Grand Rapids Mich. |
| Publisher | Zondervan |
| Date | 1992 |
| ISBN | 9780310597810 |
| Short Title | Let's talk |
| Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | David McKenzie |
| Abstract | The writer discusses the 1997 decisions of the US Supreme Court in Vacco v. Quill and Washington v. Glucksberg that state laws prohibiting physician-assisted suicide in New York and Washington respectively are not unconstitutional. He notes that these decisions overturned rulings by the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals. He contends that the Supreme Court failed to give sufficient consideration to evidence submitted in Judge Stephen Reinhardt's Ninth Circuit Court Opinion showing the implications of the "Mystery Clause" of Planned Parenthood v. Casey for issues at the end of life and linking the moral opprobrium surrounding suicide directly to the Christian contribution to western intellectual history. He maintains that the Supreme Court's decisions unconstitutionally advance the views of the Christian faith and violate a legitimate liberty interest of the people. |
| Publication | Journal of Church and State |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 787-809 |
| Date | 2004 |
| ISSN | 0021-969X |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | CM Messikomer |
| Author | RC Fox |
| Author | JP Swazey |
| Abstract | From the inception of the relatively short history of American bioethics in the mid-to-late 1960s, the place of religion in this field has been complex and controversial. It has also been a subject of more than casual interest and concern to bioethicists, and to an array of medical and non-medical groups in U.S. society for whom the activities and issues in which bioethics is engaged have ongoing import. The questions and the tensions linked to the status and influence of religion in the sphere of bioethics have ramifications that extend beyond bioethics and biomedicine into matters involving the relationship of religion to the institutional structure of American society-most particularly its polity, legal foundations, and realm of public affairs-and to its cultural attributes and tradition. It is within this larger perspective that we will consider the association between American bioethics and religion. Our analysis includes two case studies: (1) how, in the early years of bioethics, a pioneering organization in the field dealt with the "redefinition of death" in its discussions and in a major medical journal publication; and (2) the way in which the most recently appointed federal bioethics commission, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, involved religion in its work on cloning and stem cell research. |
| Publication | PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 485-508 |
| Date | FAL 2001 |
| ISSN | 0031-5982 |
| URL | http://apps.isiknowledge.com.ezproxy.bu.edu/full_record.do? product=WOS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&qid=8&… |
| Accessed | Tue Oct 27 23:25:29 2009 |
| Library Catalog | ISI Web of Knowledge |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Ted Peters |
| Edition | 2nd ed |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Date | 2003 |
| ISBN | 0415942489 |
| Short Title | Playing God? |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | QH438.7 .P48 2003 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Paul D. Simmons |
| Publication | Journal of Church and State |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | Summer 1990 |
| Pages | 567-84 |
| Date | 1990 |
| ISSN | 0021-969X |
| Accessed | Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 2009 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Paul D. Simmons |
| Abstract | The writer examines questions of religious liberty surrounding the issue of abortion, focusing on the implications of the Supreme Court's Casey decision for interpreting the First Amendment. He contends that the Casey decision places women who have decided to have an abortion in a frustrating "Catch-22" situation. The Casey decision, he explains, leaves open the possibility that the decision of a woman to have an abortion, based on her own personal understanding of morality, may be compromised by the actions of others who oppose abortion on moral or legal grounds. He argues that this dilemma needs to be addressed by the Supreme Court, which has thus far refused to deal with the religious liberty issues at stake. |
| Publication | Journal of Church and State |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-88 |
| Date | Winter 2000 |
| ISSN | 0021-969X |
| Accessed | Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 2009 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Paul D. Simmons |
| Place | Macon |
| Publisher | Mercer University Press |
| Date | 2008 |
| ISBN | 0881460850 |
| Short Title | Faith and Health |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Robert Tillman |
| Abstract | In the early 1990s, Americans spent an estimated $27 billion on alternative medical treatments. However, most of those expenditures were paid out of pocket rather than by health insurers. This article reviews empirical studies of third-party coverage of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and the factors behind the reluctance of health insurers to provide benefits for those treatments. This reluctance is based on three principal factors: a lack of scientific evidence supporting CAM providers' claims of medical efficacy, the absence of credentialing standards for many CAM providers, and difficulties in fitting CAM treatments into typological schemes that determine levels of reimbursement by health insurers. Possibilities for overcoming these obstacles to the integration of CAM into the American system of health insurance are discussed. |
| Publication | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
| Volume | 583 |
| Pages | 64-75 |
| Date | Sep., 2002 |
| ISSN | 00027162 |
| Short Title | Paying for Alternative Medicine |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1049689 |
| Accessed | Tue Nov 10 01:14:06 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Global Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Full publication date: Sep., 2002 / Copyright © 2002 American Academy of Political and Social Science |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | United States |
| Place | Washington |
| Publisher | U.S. G.P.O |
| Date | 1999 |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | CIS: See Accession No. in Note |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 14:44:04 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Carla Jean Pease Warnock |
| Abstract | All US governmental, public, and private healthcare facilities and their staff fall under some form of regulatory requirement to provide opportunities for spiritual health assessment and care as a component of holistic healthcare. As often the case with regulations, these facilities face the predicament of funding un-reimbursable care. However, chaplains and nurses who provide most patient spiritual care are paid using funds the facility obtains from patients, private, and public sources. Furthermore, Veteran healthcare services, under the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), are provided with taxpayer funds from local, state, and federal governments. With the recent legal action by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. (FFRF) against the Veterans Administration, the ethical dilemma surfaces between taxpayers funding holistic healthcare and the first amendment requirement for separation of church and state. |
| Publication | Journal of Religion and Health |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 468-481 |
| Date | Dec 2009 |
| Journal Abbr | J Relig Health |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10943-008-9208-8 |
| ISSN | 1573-6571 |
| Short Title | Who pays for providing spiritual care in healthcare settings? |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19890722 |
| Accessed | Mon Dec 28 12:13:44 2009 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 19890722 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:05:21 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:05:21 2011 |