Live Chat
Today's Hours: 8:00am - 10:00pm
Lane Medical Library

Search

Filter Applied Clear All

Filter Results

Did You Mean:

Search Results

  • Book
    Harold G. Koenig, Dana E. King, Verna Benner Carson.
    Summary: "Completely revises and updates the first edition, ... surveys the historical connections between religion and health and grapples with the distinction between the terms ''religion'' and ''spirituality'' in research and clinical practice. It reviews research on religion and mental health, as well as extensive research literature on the mind-body relationship, and develops a model to explain how religious involvement may impact physical health through the mind-body mechanisms. It also explores the direct relationships between religion and physical health, covering such topics as immune and endocrine function, heart disease, hypertension and stroke, neurological disorders, cancer, and infectious diseases; and examines the consequences of illness including chronic pain, disability, and quality of life ...[The] authors are physicians: a psychiatrist and geriatrician, a primary care physician, and a professor of nursing and specialist in mental health nursing"--Provided by publisher.

    Contents:
    I. Background. A history of religion, medicine, and health care
    Definitions
    II. Debating religion's effects on health. Religion : good or bad?
    Coping with stress
    Religion and coping
    III. Research on religion and mental health. Well-being and positive emotions
    Depression
    Suicide
    Anxiety disorders
    Psychotic disorders
    Alcohol and drug use
    Delinquency and crime
    Marital instability
    Personality and personality disorder
    Understanding religion's effects on mental health
    IV. Research on religion and physical health. Heart disease
    Hyptertension
    Cerebrovascular disease
    Alzheimer's Disease and dementia
    Immune functions
    Endocrine functions
    Cancer
    Mortality
    Physical disability
    Pain and somatic symptoms
    Health behaviors
    Disease prevention
    V. Understanding the religion-physical health relationship. Psychological, social, and behavioral pathways
    Conclusions
    Appendix. Studies on religion and health (by health outcome).
    Print Access Request
    Location
    Version
    Call Number
    Items
    Books: General Collection (Downstairs)
    2012
    BL65.M4 K646 2012
    1