The spiritual care team: Enabling the practice of whole person medicine

Religions

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1161-1174

  Koenig, Harold G ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Religion; Spiritual care; Spiritual care team; Spiritual history; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922013215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20771444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rel5041161     Document Type: Article

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