Items of interest May 2, 2005 Issue

Items of interest

with contributions from Julia C. Keller, Robin Evans, Gayle MacDonald

"RELIGION-AND-HEALTH researchers paid Southern healthcare providers an important house call in a prestigious medical journal. ... In December, the Southern Medical Journal devoted its continuing medical education section to spirituality in healthcare.

"The Southern Medical Journal, the journal of the non-profit Southern Medical Association, reaches an international readership of 14,000 physicians and other healthcare providers—an audience that Dr. Ronald Hamdy, the journal's editor-in-chief, said had encouraged him to deal with issues of religion-and-health head on. ...

"The appropriateness was not lost on Dr. Harold Koenig, a contributor to the journal's special issue and editor-in-chief of Science & Theology News. 'This is the first time that a major mainstream medical journal has devoted an entire issue to religion, spirituality, and medicine,' said Koenig. 'It sends the message that this is an important area that doctors can no longer ignore. That message is critical at this particular time in the growth of this field.' ...

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