Health, Nursing & KSM Resources

Titles in Red are in the Eberly Library at Waynesburg College at the call number given.


Avalos, Hector.  Health Care and the Rise of Christianity. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1999. 261.8321 A945h

Beckwith, F. J. . Politically correct death. Grand Rapids: Baker 1992.

Bouma, H. . Christian faith, health and medical practice. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 1989.

Carson, V. B. . Spiritual dimensions of nursing practice. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders 1989.

Dossey, Barbara Montgomery.   Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer. Springhouse, Pa.: Springhouse Corp 2000.  q92 N687d 

Evans, Abigail Rian  Redeeming marketplace medicine : a theology of health care    Cleveland, Ohio : Pilgrim Press, 1999.  261.561 E92r 

Fournier, K. A. & Watkins, W. D. . In defense of life. Colorado Springs: NavPress 1996.

Hauerwas, S. . Suffering presence: Theological reflections on medicine, the mentally handicapped, and the church. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1986.

Jones, D. G. . Our fragile brains. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1980.
        Library has 1981 ed. 153 J760

Kelsey, M. . Psychology, medicine and Christian healing. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.

Kilner, John F.   Does God Need Our Help? Cloning, Assisted Suicide, and Other Challenges in Bioethics.  Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, 2003. 179.7 K488d 2003

Kilner, John F.  The changing face of health care: a Christian appraisal of managed care, resource allocation, and patient-caregiver relationships.  Edited by John F. Kilner, Robert D. Orr, Judith Allen Shelly.  Grand Rapids, MichEerdman,, 1986. 362.104258 C456

Kilner, John F. . Life on the line. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992.

Kilner, John F., Cameron, N. M., & Schiedermayer, D., (Eds.). A philosophical basis of medical practice. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lammers, S. E. & Verhey, A. . On moral medicine: Theological perspectives in medical ethics. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987.         Library has 1998 ed.  174.2 O585

Larson, E. J. & Amundsen, D. W. . A different death: Euthanasia & the Christian tradition. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1998. 179.7 L334d

Macrae, Janet A.  Nursing as a Spiritual Practice: A Contemporary application of Florence Nightingale's Views. New York: Springer, 2001. 610.73 M174n

Malony, H. N. . Wholeness and holiness: Readings in the psychology/theology of mental health. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1983.

Marty, M. & Vaux, K. . Health/medicine and the faith traditions: An inquiry into religion and medicine. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982.

Meilaender, G. . Bioethics: A primer for Christians. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

Meilaender, G. . Body, soul, and bioethics. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996.

Moreland, J. P. . The life and death debate. Westport: Praeger, 1990.

O'Brien, Mary E. The Nurse's Calling : A Christian Spirituality of Caring for the Sick. New York: Paulist Press, 2001. 610.73 O136n 2001

O'Brien, M. E. . Spirituality in nursing. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1999. 630.7301 O13s

Pellegrino, Edmund D. (1997). Helping and healing: religious commitment in health care.  Wasington, DC: Georgetown University Press.  174.2 P386h.

Pellegrino, E. D. & Thomasma, D. C. . For the patient's good. New York: Oxford, 1988.

Roach, M.S. (ed). . Caring from the heart: the convergence of caring and spirituality.  New York: Paulist Press, 1997.

Shelly, J. A. & Miller, A. B. . Called to care: A Christian theology of nursing. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1999.  610.7301 S545c

Shelly, J. A. and Miller, A. B. . Values in conflict: Christian nursing in a changing profession. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1991. 248.88 S545v

Vaux, Kenneth L. . Being well.  Nashville, TN:  Abingdon Press, 1997.   261.56 V385b

Wilkinson, John  The Bible and healing: A medical and theological commentary. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998. 234.13109 W686b

This bibliography contains resources that were originally as a resource of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. It is used here with permission of the CCCU.  Modifications have been made to this document in the form of the addition of Eberly Library call numbers and the deletion of some titles. For the original document, visit www.cccu.org.