Religion, spirituality, health and medicine: Why should Indian physicians care?

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 262-266

  Chattopadhyay, S ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ayurveda; Complementary and alternative medicine; Dharma; Health; Hinduism; Medical ethics; Medicine; Religion; Spirituality; Western medicine

Indexed keywords

AYURVEDA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH; DISABILITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICIAN; RELIGION; REVIEW;

EID: 37849054268     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.33967     Document Type: Review

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