Spirituality: The emperor's new clothes?

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-16

  Bash, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Christianity; Patients' Charter; Religion; Spirituality; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

CHRISTIAN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT; PHILOSOPHY; RELIGION; REVIEW; SCIENCE;

CHRISTIANITY; EXISTENTIALISM; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; JUDAISM; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PASTORAL CARE; PATIENT RIGHTS; PHILOSOPHY; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 0942289820     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2702.2003.00838.x     Document Type: Review

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