eMJA: Spirituality and health supplement

Matters Arising

Spirituality and health supplement

Our recent supplement on spirituality and health has occasioned considerable controversy. (MJA 2007; 186 (10 Suppl): S41-S76)

Supplement unbalanced
Chris O Jackson — Med J Aust 2007; 187 (7): 421.

Religion as a competing interest
Jon Clarke — Med J Aust 2007; 187 (7): 421-422.

Statements of competing interest notably absent
Ross B Holland — Med J Aust 2007; 187 (7): 422.

Gratuitous and without scientific substance
Lahn D Straney — Med J Aust 2007; 187 (7): 422.

Seeking clarification
Tom Huang — Med J Aust 2007; 187 (7): 422.

Religious affiliation and life expectancy at birth
Robert F Grace — Med J Aust 2007; 187 (7): 423.

Spirituality and health
Hosen Kiat and Marek Jantos || Martin B Van Der Weyden — Med J Aust 2007; 187 (7): 423-424.