Medical Practice, the Church and COVID-19

Lindsay B Carey; Harold G Koenig; Ezra Gabbay; Terrence Hill; Jeffery Cohen; David Drummond; Carl Aiken; Jacinda R Carey

doi:10.1007/s10943-023-01867-8

Medical Practice, the Church and COVID-19

J Relig Health. 2023 Aug;62(4):2253-2257. doi: 10.1007/s10943-023-01867-8. Epub 2023 Jul 18.

Authors

Lindsay B Carey^{1

2}, Harold G Koenig^{3

4}, Ezra Gabbay⁵, Terrence Hill⁶, Jeffery Cohen⁷, David Drummond⁸, Carl Aiken⁹, Jacinda R Carey¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Public Health Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Lindsay.Carey@latrobe.edu.au.
² Institute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia. Lindsay.Carey@latrobe.edu.au.
³ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Medicine, Duke University Health Systems, Durham, NC, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hospital Medicine Section, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁷ St Vincent's Private Hospital Sydney, Australia and School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁸ McKellar Centre, Barwon Health, Victoria, Australia.
⁹ Emeritus Chaplain, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia and Alumni, Drew University, Madison, USA.
¹⁰ Public Health Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

PMID: 37462891
DOI: 10.1007/s10943-023-01867-8

Abstract

This issue of JORH explores the importance of religion and spirituality in medical practice, as well as research relating to the Church and its clergy, and finally the lingering effects of COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; Church; Clergy; Medical practice; Occupational health; Public health; Religion; Spirituality.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Clergy
Humans
Religion
Spiritual Therapies*
Spirituality