SPIRITUALITY AND PALLIATIVE CARE
Social and Pastoral Perspectives
Bruce Rumbold (Ed)
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Oxford University Press, 2002
233 pp
ISBN 019551352-5
RRP £14.95
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Few would argue about the importance of spirituality and spiritual care in palliative care. However, questions of what it means and how it
should be done lead to a diverse range of views and opinions. The various chapters in this book set out to make sense of this diversity. The first part of the book reviews a range of theoretical
perspectives and resources that assist in understanding spirituality. The second part contains first-person accounts of both patients and carers. The third part entitled “Developing Responses”,
discusses how spiritual care may evolve. The final part of the book draws the strands together and presents some guidelines for care. The Guidelines alone are worth the cost of the book: they
are clearly articulated in plain English, well reasoned and clinically practical.
This book should appeal to all who work in palliative care and will be of particular interest to pastoral care workers and others
with a special interest in spiritual care.
Roger Woodruff
Director of Palliative Care, Austin Health, Melbourne
(March 2004)
Author Information
Dr Bruce Rumbold is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Palliative Care Unit, Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Table of Contents
PART 1 EXPLORING SPIRITUALITY
1. From Religion to Spirituality 5
Rumbold
2. The Contemporary Search for Meaning in Suffering 22
Confoy
3. Towards a Philosophy of Caring and Spirituality for a Secular Age 38
van Hooft
4. Dying the way we live 51
Hockey
5. Finding life through facing death 64
Ezzy
PART 2 REFLECTING UPON EXPERIENCE
6. It’s the way my spirit speaks 87
May
7. Facing the situation 97
Millard
8. Offering spiritual care 116
Jenkins
9. Crossing boundaries 130
Beirne
10. Supervision and spirituality for the care-givers 148
Paver
PART 3 DEVELOPING RESPONSES
11. Spiritual care in palliative care : Who’s job is it? 166
Kelleehear
12. New horizons in spirituality research 178
McGrath
13. Dying is a spiritual quest 195
Rumbold
PART 4 GUIDELINES FOR SPIRITUAL CARE
Summary 221
Index 229
