An exploration of the understanding of spirituality among patients and staff of the Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital / Thobeka Sweetness Nkomo
Until recently, the health professions have largely followed a medical model, which seeks to treat patients by focusing on medicine and surgery, and gives less importance to beliefs and to the faith in healing, in the physician, and in the doctor-patient relationship. This reductionist view of patie...
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Language: | en |
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2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/11920 |