Reintegrating Care for the Dying, Body and Soul

被引:7
作者
Balboni, Michael J. [1 ]
Balboni, Tracy A. [1 ]
机构
[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Dana Farber Canc Inst, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
关键词
TREATMENT PREFERENCES; MEDICAL-CARE; NEAR-DEATH; LIFE; END; CANCER; ASSOCIATIONS; HEALTH; PHYSICIANS; BELIEFS;
D O I
10.1017/S0017816010000672
中图分类号
B9 [宗教];
学科分类号
010107 ;
摘要
Modern medicine owes many of its founding principles to a spiritual heritage. However, passage through the Enlightenment and entry into a secular, pluralistic health context have yielded an estranged relationship between care of the body and care of the soul.1 Scientific medicine now holds the primary role in care of the body while religious communities are solely responsible for care of the soul. The needs of both body and soul are in many respects served well by this specialization and division of labor, but ultimately, of course, human experience is not susceptible to such a simplistic dichotomization. The lack of integration of spiritual and material care of the human person in contemporary life has led to increasingly evident tensions, most notably in the mechanization and isolation of the experiences of illness and dying. Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 2010.
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页码:351 / 364
页数:14
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