ENGLISH VERSION
Marcelo Saad. MD, PhD (S. Paulo, Brazil) - Physician, board-certified in Physiatry and Acupuncture. Doctorate in Rehabilitation Sciences by the Federal University of S. Paulo. Current director member of the Spiritist-Medical Association of S. Paulo. Collaborator with the Brazilian and of the International Spiritist-Medical Associations. Co-founder member of the Interfaith Coalition on Health and Spirituality (a movement to foster spiritual support in hospitals). Besides his work as a physician in private practice, he is also engaged in scientific publication, editorial collaborations with journals and books, technical lectures, and scholar tasks. His primary interest fields are religiosity in healthcare and complementary spiritual therapies.
Scientific Production in ENGLISH (for all publications click here)
2009 - PAPER - Integration of acupuncture for out- and inpatients in general hospital in Brazil
2009 - PAPER - Why Medical Acupuncture?
2011 - Chapter - Acupuncture for Inpatients in General Hospitals – Special Features of this Service
2012 - Chapter - Complementary Therapies – Considerations Before Recommend, Tolerate or Proscribe
2012 - Chapter - Spiritual-Religious Coping – Health Services Empowering Patients’ Resources.
2012 - Chapter - Distant Healing by the Supposed Vital Energy – Scientific Bases
2015 - PAPER - Toward the Concept of ‘Spiritist Chaplaincy’
2015 - PAPER - Poor Results in Pain Management: Suggestion for How to Interpret Them
2015 - PAPER - Informal Mind–Body Techniques [Irritable Bowel Syndrome]
2016 - PAPER - Programs of Religious/Spiritual Support in Hospitals - Five "Whies" and Five "Hows"
2017 - PAPER - The Continuum of Mind-Body Interplay - From Placebo Effect to Unexplained Cures
2017 - PAPER - Potential Contribution of the Medical-Spiritist Model to a New Paradigm on Medicine
2017 - PAPER - Spiritist Complementary Therapies - Ways for Future Integration to Medicine
2017 - PAPER - Implications for public health of the religiosity-longevity relation.
2018 - PAPER - The Patient with Overestimated Faith, Expecting for a Miraculous Healing
2019 - Chapter - Spirituality, Religiousness and Physical Health: Scientific Evidence
2019 - Chapter - Acupuncture: What Controversies? What Pathways?
2020 - PAPER - Should Spiritual Care Be Covered by Healthcare Insurance and Health Systems?
2021 - PAPER - Religion and health: most of times, an excellent combination
2021 - PAPER - Advocating for the concept of spiritual health
2021 - PAPER - Spiritual Well-Being Affects Emotional and Physical Health
2021 - PAPER - A model of the spirit that could explain some anomalous phenomena of consciousness