Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person

The modern world faces religious, spiritual and existential quandaries, as new technologies redefine the beginnings and ends of life. Excruciating choices arise about when to turn off the machines - whether and when we should "play God." The COVID-19 pandemic made these dilemmas ever more acute. Increasingly, however, public discourse on religion and spirituality is polarized, with evangelicals on one side and vehement atheists on the other.

Psychiatrist and bioethicist Robert Klitzman explo...