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...Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion And Medicine By Richard P. Sloan; St. Martin's Griffin
Dragging religion into clinical medicine, argues Sloan, is bad for both. Too much of the research is sloppy and funded by folks who have a stake in finding that belief is good for us. The result is bad science, bad medicine--and even bad religion when faith is trivialized by being treated like just another item in the health-care system's bag of tricks...
Three experts--the Rev. George Handzo, a chaplain with the HealthCare Chaplaincy of New York City; Dr. Andrew Newberg, a radiologist and psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Richard Sloan, a psychiatrist at Columbia University--discuss the role that belief should play in science...
...Richard Sloan: Spirituality and religion play a substantial role in helping patients overcome discomfort. But I don't think that it's any business of medicine, and I think it's extremely difficult for science to study. I am greatly supportive of the role of health-care chaplains for patients who have spiritual or religious concerns. But I don't think it's the doctor's job to be involved in that, other than to refer to a professional...
...Sloan: I don't think they should be taking spiritual histories...