Our mission is to create and disseminate knowledge of the role that spirituality plays in health and healing.
Spiritual Support Meeting Groups
Work in healthcare? Need support with spiritual issues? Please join us for our first-ever spiritual support group meeting and see how you can work through spiritual issues that arise in the context of health professions.
April 24 / 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
FAITHS IN CONVERSATION
Join us for a forum dedicated to a dialogue between Islam and Christianity. We will hear from a Christian pastor and a Muslim neurosurgeon, who will each discuss their faith and its relationship to a scientific worldview.
June 20th / 6:30 pm at ISH
Meditation 101
"Meditation" encompasses many different form of practice. This panel will allow attendees to learn about the great many varieties of meditative practice, across both Eastern and Western traditions. Come to learn from three experts in the field!
May 14, 2013 / 5:30-7:30pm
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Enlightenment, Dualism and Medicine
"The Enlightenment did not necessarily breed disdain among physicians toward religion. Rather, it further propelled the profession as a whole into a dualistic conception of the relationship between body and soul. Spirituality -- as the experession of the immaterial reality of humanity -- became secondary in a profession primarily concerned with material matters and means of addressing them. Ironically ... many key figures involved in the Enlightenment period were devoutly religious; these included Francis Bacon, Rene' Descartes, and Isaac Newton.
John R Peteet, MD and Michael D'Ambra, MD. The Soul of Medicine: Spiritual Perspectives and Clinical Practice. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p. 13.
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Our mission is to create and disseminate knowledge of the role that spirituality plays in health and healing.
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