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By Richard G. Bennett and W. Daniel Hale
2nd ed, 228 pp, $25
Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9293-6

JAMA. 2009;302(17):1911-1912.

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It is commonplace to hear about ways that medical and religious institutions, regardless of size, can or should partner in promoting the health of the individuals whose lives they share. In Building Healthy Communities Through Medical-Religious Partnerships, Bennett and Hale describe practical ways that this might be accomplished. Although the back cover indicates that the book is for leaders of hospital/medical as well as faith communities, the writing style lends itself much more to leaders of faith communities, because health care personnel will already be familiar with the descriptions, risk factors, and long-term sequelae of the conditions discussed. Nevertheless, if leaders in the medical field skip over such sections, they will find much useful information that they can use to forge relationships with communities of faith—relationships that can benefit all concerned.

The book has 4 parts. The first part explores the concept of religious communities and health care. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Pat Fosarelli, MD, DMin, Reviewer
Ecumenical Institute
Baltimore, Maryland
pfosarelli@stmarys.edu

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