King, MB;
Koenig, HG;
(2009)
Conceptualising spirituality for medical research and health service provision.
BMC Health Services Research
, 9
, Article 116. 10.1186/1472-6963-9-116.
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Abstract
The need to take account of spirituality in research and health services provision is assuming ever greater importance. However the field has long been hampered by a lack of conceptual clarity about the nature of spirituality itself. We do not agree with the sceptical claim that it is impossible to conceptualise spirituality within a scientific paradigm. Our aims are to 1) provide a brief overview of critical thinking that might form the basis for a useful definition of spirituality for research and clinical work and 2) demystify the language of spirituality for clinical practice and research.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Conceptualising spirituality for medical research and health service provision |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1472-6963-9-116 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-116 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2009 King and Koenig; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Religion, beliefs, Britain, care |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/69019 |
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