Library of Congress fellowship to explore health-spirituality link

Published: 2004-08-03

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Thanks to a $2.5 million gift from the International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality, the Library of Congress has created the David B. Larson fellowship in health and spirituality at its John W. Kluge Center. The fellowship, named for the late Dr. David B. Larson, is designed to encourage gifted professionals from medical, religious, social sciences or humanistic disciplines to pursue serious scientific research into the potentially relevant but understudied spiritual factors that might help in prevention of illness or in coping with or recovering from illness. Larson, an epidemiologist and psychiatrist, founded the International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality and was its president at the time of his death in 2002 at age 54.

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