Paging God, Wendy Cadge
Paging God, Wendy Cadge
List: $9.99 | Sale: $7.00
Club: $4.99

Paging God
Religion in the Halls of Medicine

Author: Wendy Cadge

Narrator: Auto-narrated

Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2023

Synopsis

While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of miraculous, religion still plays an important role in the past and present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of Americans believe that God can cure people who have been given little or no chance of survival by their doctors, how do today’s technologically sophisticated health care organizations address spirituality and faith? Through a combination of interviews with nurses, doctors, and chaplains across the United States and close observation of their daily routines, Wendy Cadge takes readers inside major academic medical institutions to explore how today’s doctors and hospitals address prayer and other forms of religion and spirituality. From chapels to intensive care units to the morgue, hospital caregivers speak directly in these pages about how religion is part of their daily work in visible and invisible ways. In Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine, Cadge shifts attention away from the ongoing controversy about whether faith and spirituality should play a role in health care and back to the many ways that these powerful forces already function in healthcare today.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bethany

This book is a sociological look at the ways religion functions within secular healthcare institutions in the United States. Cadge focuses primarily on the work of chaplains as well as how other medical staff, such as doctors or nurses, engage with religion in their day to day work. Since this book......more

Goodreads review by Tiffanie Z.

Great book to help one understand the role of chaplains and opinions other healthcare workers when it comes to spirituality and religion for patients in hospital. A little to “researchy” but very accurate from my perspective of being a hospital chaplain. We do need more research though.......more

Goodreads review by Sue

This is a great discussion of both the role of hospital chaplains and perceptions of religion and spirituality in hospitals.......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

This was required reading for a chaplaincy course, and I would recommend it for anyone interested in chaplaincy. Cadge gives the historical background of how hospital chaplaincy evolved, and why it took the particular form it does today at most hospitals: who does chaplaincy, how they are credential......more

Goodreads review by Brian

Wendy Cadge is not a chaplain, she's a sociologist. As such, she brings her fresh set of eyes to my own profession. In doing so, she dissects some sacred cows (how chaplains seem to strategically use vague spirituality language, and the impact this has clinically, for example), as well as seems to h......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List