The Healer's Calling

The Healer's Calling
Author: Daniel P. Sulmasy
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1997
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780809137299

Increasingly, physicians and other health care workers are becoming alienated from their work, as medicine becomes more and more de-personalized, technologically oriented and driven by entrepreneurial concerns. The Healer's Calling addresses the longings of many people in this profession for a renewed sense of the transcendent meaning of their work, for the spiritual elements of healing.-- where God may be found in health care-- how faithful clinicians might persevere in the midst of the suffering and uncertainty that is part of daily practice-- how and when a doctor or nurse might pray-- how genuine Christian joy can still be found in the healing artsWith extraordinary grace and passion, Franciscan friar and physician Daniel Sulmasy speaks to the spiritual longing of healers. His work is at once a personal reflection and exhortation, written at a time of great turmoil in medicine. Sure to be of great interest to health care workers at all levels, it will capture the attention of anyone concerned about the spiritual dimensions of health care.

The Healer's Calling

The Healer's Calling
Author: Rebecca J. Tannenbaum
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2019-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501720198

This book, the first to describe women medical practitioners other than midwives in the colonial period, emphasizes that medical care was part of every woman's work. The Healer's Calling uses memorable anecdotes, engaging characters, and medical oddities to tell the fascinating story of the practice of household medicine in early America. Rebecca J. Tannenbaum points out that housewives provided much of the medical care available in the seventeenth century. Elite women cared for the indigent in their towns and used medical practice to make influential connections with powerful men; "doctresses" or "doctor women" supported themselves with their practices and competed directly with male physicians; and midwives were crucial "expert witnesses" in cases of fornication, murder, and witchcraft. Yet there were limits to the authority of women's healing communities, with consequences for those who overstepped the bounds. By setting women's practice in the context of contemporary medicine, gender roles, and community norms, Tannenbaum also reveals the relationship between women's medical practice and witchcraft accusations. Tannenbaum examines colonial America's full range of medical options—including the work of classically trained male doctors and male lay practitioners—with a keen eye to the interactions and tensions between men and women in the realm of healing.

The Anatomy of a Calling

The Anatomy of a Calling
Author: Lissa Rankin
Publisher: Rodale
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-12-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1623365740

In The Anatomy of a Calling, Lissa Rankin, MD, makes a simple yet revolutionary claim: We are all, every single one of us, heroes. We are all on what Joseph Campbell calls "a hero's journey;" we are all on a mission to step into our true nature and fulfill the assignment our souls were sent to Earth to fulfill. Navigating the hero's journey, Dr. Rankin argues, is one of the cornerstones of living a meaningful, authentic, healthy life. In clear, engaging prose, Dr. Rankin describes her entire spiritual journey for the first time--beginning with what she calls her "perfect storm" of events--and recounts the many transformative experiences that led to a profound awakening of her soul. Through her father's death, her daughter's birth, career victories and failures, and an ongoing struggle to identify as both a doctor and a healer, Dr. Rankin discovers a powerful self-awareness. As she shares her story, she encourages you to find out where you are on your own journey and offers wisdom and inspiration in the form of "Hero's Guideposts" along the way. Dr. Rankin weaves in lessons on trusting intuition, surrendering to love, and learning to see adversity as an opportunity for soul growth. Much more than a memoir, The Anatomy of a Calling guides you to make a powerful shift in consciousness and reach your highest destiny.

The Faith Healers

The Faith Healers
Author: James Randi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1989
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Exposes the pretension and fraud that surrounds the faith healer business, revealing how alleged faith healers prey on the insecurities and vulnerabilities of the people they preach to.

Called To Be

Called To Be
Author: Nina Wang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2019-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781733101103

The children's picture book, Called to Be: Healers with Jesus, is about helping children find their occupational calling in medicine through mirroring Jesus' ministry on earth and God's redemptive story in healing humanity. Our desire is that children will see their potential futures in the healing profession as a way of imitating Jesus and being a part of God's redemptive plan. The story is told in the perspective of God speaking to young readers and encouraging them to join in his ministry of healing. The reader journeys with God in various points in history from Eden to the present day, where modern day occupations reflect Jesus' miracles in the gospels to God's promise with his people.

Called to Heal

Called to Heal
Author: Susan Schuster Campbell
Publisher: Lotus Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2000
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0914955918

This book tells the story of some remarkable people from the African Healing tradition. It exposes many of us, for the first time, to ways of relating to our world that are holistic and shamanistic in nature, adding real quality and value to our lives. It challenges us to integrate the contribution of African healing methods, and these extraordinary healers, into a new healthier vision of our future.

The Finest Traditions of My Calling

The Finest Traditions of My Calling
Author: Abraham M. Nussbaum
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300211406

"Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We live in an era of continuous healthcare reforms, many of which focus on high volume, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This compelling, thoughtful book is the response of a practicing physician who explains how population-based reforms are diminishing the relationship between doctor and patients, to the detriment of both. As an antidote to stubbornly held traditions, Dr. Abraham M. Nussbaum suggests ways that doctors and patients can learn what it means to be ill and to seek medical assistance. Drawing on personal stories, validated studies, and neglected history, the author develops a series of metaphors to explore a doctor's role in different healthcare reform scenarios: scientist, technician, author, gardener, teacher, servant, and witness. Each role shapes what physicians see when they encounter a patient. Dr. Nussbaum cautions that true healthcare reform can happen only when those who practice medicine can see, and be seen by, their patients as fellow creatures. His memoir makes a hopeful appeal for change, and his insights reveal the direction that change must take."--Jacket flap.

On Becoming a Healer

On Becoming a Healer
Author: Saul J. Weiner
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1421437821

An invaluable guide to becoming a competent and compassionate physician. Medical students and physicians-in-training embark on a long journey that, although steeped in scientific learning and technical skill building, includes little guidance on the emotional and interpersonal dimensions of becoming a healer. Written for anyone in the health care community who hopes to grow emotionally and cognitively in the way they interact with patients, On Becoming a Healer explains how to foster doctor-patient relationships that are mutually nourishing. Dr. Saul J. Weiner, a physician-educator, argues that joy in medicine requires more than idealistic aspirations—it demands a capacity to see past the "otherness" that separates the well from the sick, the professional in a white coat from the disheveled patient in a hospital gown. Weiner scrutinizes the medical school indoctrination process and explains how it molds the physician's mindset into that of a task completer rather than a thoughtful professional. Taking a personal approach, Weiner describes his own journey to becoming an internist and pediatrician while offering concrete advice on how to take stock of your current development as a physician, how to openly and fully engage with patients, and how to establish clear boundaries that help defuse emotionally charged situations. Readers will learn how to counter judgmentalism, how to make medical decisions that take into account the whole patient, and how to incorporate the organizing principle of healing into their practice. Each chapter ends with questions for reflection and discussion to help personalize the lessons for individual learners.

True Calling

True Calling
Author: Evangeline Hemrick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2019-08-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781688740983

Activate The Healer Within You! This guide was written for anyone interested in a career in massage therapy and energy healing along with established practitioners of the healing arts who want to feel better, make more money, avoid burnout and have more to offer their clients. Seasoned practitioners can benefit from this information through utilizing techniques to create a healer lifestyle that takes our business and personal lives to the next level of enjoyment, success and abundance. Above and beyond a simple how-to guide to help you get started in massage therapy, this book was intentionally created for anyone who wants to become highly specialized in the top performance level of massage therapy, bodywork and energy healing. "True Calling" is useful for any practitioner who deals one on one with clients in a therapeutic capacity.If you've ever been interested in hands-on healing as a profession or if you want to take your professional practice even further, this book is rich with action steps, mindset exercises, meditations and visualizations to activate the healer within you. ~ Evangeline

Medicine, Religion, and Health

Medicine, Religion, and Health
Author: Harold G Koenig
Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1599471418

Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet will be the first title published in the new Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this, the series' maiden volume, Dr. Harold G. Koenig, provides an overview of the relationship between health care and religion that manages to be comprehensive yet concise, factual yet inspirational, and technical yet easily accessible to nonspecialists and general readers. Focusing on the scientific basis for integrating spirituality into medicine, Koenig carefully summarizes major trends, controversies, and the latest research from various disciplines and provides plausible and compelling theoretical explanations for what has thus far emerged in this relatively young field of study. Medicine, Religion, and Health begins by defining the principal terms and then moves on to a brief history of religion's role in medicine before delving into the current state of research. Koenig devotes several chapters to exploring the outcomes of specific studies in fields such as mental health, cardiovascular disease, and mortality. The book concludes with a review of the clinical applications derived from the research. Koenig also supplies several detailed appendices to aid readers of all levels looking for further information. Medicine, Religion, and Health will shed new light on critical contemporary issues. They will whet readers' appetites for more information on this fascinating, complex, and controversial area of research, clinical activity, and widespread discussion. It will find a welcome home on the bookshelves of students, researchers, clinicians, and other health professionals in a variety of disciplines.