THE LANCET PERSPECTIVES|THE ART OF MEDICINE| VOLUME 394, ISSUE 10199, P630-631, AUGUST 24, 2019
The soul in medicine
Beginning of article:
“When I was a child in New York City in the 1940s, the word “soul” was commonly invoked in school, in the neighbourhood, at home, and on the radio. Soul had a strong religious connotation, and was invoked regularly in the synagogue I attended as well as in the churches my late wife visited as a young girl. The social gospel orientation of many churches in African American communities would intensify its moral significance in the decades that followed. And soul as a lively, deep, and divided humanity in the writings of the early great civil rights activist W E B Du Bois continues to be relevant and resonant. But in recent decades, the term has largely declined in popular use in the USA.” […]
