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“Does religion and spirituality influence your health?” Wendy Cadge asks. “I don’t think this is an unimportant question." Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office |
‘Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine’What happens when a Buddhist monk visiting the United States is hospitalized, terminally ill with liver cancer? Does religion interfere with his medical care? What about his Buddhist brethren, unable to join him bedside? Who will provide the appropriate services and ceremonies? Well, says Wendy Cadge, that’s where hospital chaplains come in. |
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