Spirituality and Medicine

An editorial co-authored by Dr. Michael Balboni and Dr. Tracy Balboni, co-directors of the Initiative on Health, Religion, and Spirituality at Harvard University, was recently quoted in a TIME magazine article entitled "Physicians Avoid Conversations...

Author of The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become increasingly popular over the last several years. Treatments such as acupuncture, yoga, and Reiki once fairly...

Author of Dying in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well Benjamin Franklin once said that the only things certain in this world are death and taxes. One could argue, however, that we live as though taxes are a...

The fields of religion and global health are not often thought of in the same context. Yet with the increasing globalization of our world, interactions with people of different cultures and religious backgrounds are on the rise making our cultural...

Spiritual Dimensions of Illness and Healing: The 4th Annual Medicine and Religion Conference by Daniel W. O’Neill MD, MATSc The Fourth Annual Conference on Medicine and Religion was held in Cambridge, MA, USA March 6-8, 2015. In western culture, there...

Written By: Rebecca Quiñones, MTS This year’s Conference on Medicine and Religion was hosted by the Harvard Health Initiative on Health, Religion, and Spirituality. The Conference is unique in that it brings together working professionals and students...

FOR CENTURIES, FAITH COMMUNITIES took care of the depressed. After Greek and Roman times, the depressed, if severely ill, were often housed in religious institutions such as priories or monasteries. As a result, depressive-like symptoms have long been of...

Dr. Nancy Kehoe, Director of Expanding Connections, is a licensed psychologist. She is a part-time Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has been affiliated with the Cambridge Health...

Dr. John Peteet, a psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is one of the co-editors of the recently released collection entitled The Soul of Medicine...