Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine

Author by : Michael J. Balboni
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2018-10-12
Publisher by : Oxford University Press

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Description : Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power-an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion, which too often reminds us of our mortality. As a result of this separation of medicine and religion, patients facing serious illness infrequently receive adequate spiritual care, despite the large body of empirical data demonstrating its importance to patient decision-making, quality of life, and medical utilization. This secular-sacred divide also unleashes depersonalizing, social forces through the market, technology, and legal-bureaucratic powers that reduce clinicians to tiny cogs in an unstoppable machine. Hostility to Hospitality is one of the first books of its kind to explore these hostilities threatening medicine and offer a path forward for the partnership of modern medicine and spirituality. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship including empirical studies, interviews, history and sociology, theology, and public policy, the authors argue for structural pluralism as the key to changing hostility to hospitality....

Author by : Michael J. Balboni
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2018
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Description : 'Hostility to Hospitality' explores the secular-sacred divide and the hostilities threatening medicine, offering a path forward for the partnership of modern medicine and spirituality. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship including empirical studies, interviews, history and sociology, theology, and public policy, the authors argue for structural pluralism as the key to changing hostility to hospitality....

Author by : Michael J. Balboni
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2018-09-18
Publisher by : Oxford University Press

ISBN :

Description : Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power-an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion, which too often reminds us of our mortality. As a result of this separation of medicine and religion, patients facing serious illness infrequently receive adequate spiritual care, despite the large body of empirical data demonstrating its import to patient meaning-making, quality of life, and medical utilization. This secular-sacred divide also unleashes depersonalizing, social forces through the market, technology, and legal-bureaucratic powers that reduce clinicians to tiny cogs in an unstoppable machine. Hostility to Hospitality is one of the first books of its kind to explore these hostilities threatening medicine and offer a path forward for the partnership of modern medicine and spirituality. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship including empirical studies, interviews, history and sociology, theology, and public policy, the authors argue for structural pluralism as the key to changing hostility to hospitality....

Author by : Simon Peng-Keller
Languange Used : de
Release Date : 2021-02-15
Publisher by : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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Description : Das Gesundheitswesen befindet sich im Wandel. Neben Globalisierung und Digitalisierung verändert auch das Aufkommen einer interprofessionellen Spiritual Care den Klinikalltag. Welche Rolle kann hier die christliche Klinikseelsorge einnehmen? Sollen Patient*innen umfassend und empathisch betreut werden, dürfen nicht nur Symptome und Diagnosen im Vordergrund stehen. Genauso wichtig ist, was eine Erkrankung für den Menschen im Krankenhausbett bedeutet und wie der neuen Situation begegnet werden kann. Das Buch ist ein Plädoyer dafür, die christliche Krankenhausseelsorge als spezialisierte Spiritual Care zu profilieren und im Horizont des christlichen Heilungsauftrags neu zu verstehen. Nur in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Gesundheitsfachpersonen kann sie weiterhin ihren Auftrag wahrnehmen und eine gerechte und humane Gesundheitsversorgung fördern....

Author by : Doris Wierzbicki
Languange Used : de
Release Date : 2021-11-10
Publisher by : Kohlhammer Verlag

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Description : Neben dem Bedarf an medizinischer Versorgung haben Patientinnen und Patienten auch das Bedürfnis nach spiritueller Fürsorge, weswegen das Krankenhauspersonal sehr häufig mit spirituellen Fragen konfrontiert wird. Da das Personal in diesem Bereich jedoch oftmals nicht geschult ist, führen diese Fragen häufig zu Unsicherheit und Überforderung. Wie aber kann die Implementierung von Spiritual Care in einen effektiven Klinikalltag gelingen? Dieses Buch stellt ein Fortbildungsprogramm vor, welches wissenschaftlich evaluiert und durch die positiven Veränderungen im Haus zum "Ankerprojekt Klinik Diakonissen Linz" für das Diakoniewerk wurde. Die verschiedenen Berufsgruppen lernen dabei Methoden und Wege kennen, mit spirituellen Bedürfnissen umzugehen. Anhand zahlreicher Praxisbeispiele und Erfahrungen zeigt das Werk auf, wie Spiritual Care möglichst einfach und wirksam in der Klinik und in Einrichtungen der Langzeitpflege umgesetzt werden kann....

Author by : Nika Höfler
Languange Used : de
Release Date : 2022-10-25
Publisher by : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

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Description : Handlungsformen von Seelsorge und ihre Wirksamkeit in klinischen Einrichtungen werden wissenschaftlich-evaluierend aufgezeigt. Ziel ist es, einen genuin aus dem Feld der Seelsorge stammenden Beitrag zur Wirksamkeitsforschung zu leisten, die aktuell international in Gesundheitswissenschaften und Theologie geführt wird. Diese Forschungstendenzen werden künftig maßgeblich sein für Gewährleistung und Strukturen kirchlich verantworteter Seelsorge in Deutschland in der ambulanten und stationären Versorgung erkrankter und pflegebedürftiger Menschen. Der Ansatz arbeitet rein induktiv an dem eigens erhobenen Textmaterial und wird in den aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Diskurs eingebettet, um den eigenen Beitrag zu einer poimenischen Theoriebildung aufzuzeigen. [Effectiveness of health care chaplaincy. A qualitative study.] The dissertation as part of a larger research project develops parameters for measuring the effectiveness of health care chaplaincy. The author uses case reports and narrative interviews to record the views of all those involved in chaplaincy, followed by statistics of corresponding time quotas and contact numbers. The aim is to secure the future of health care chaplaincy in Germany in the long term and to react to changes in the health care system and society....

Author by : Matthew T. Lee
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2021
Publisher by : Oxford University Press

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Description : "This edited volume explores conceptual and practical challenges in measuring well-being. Given the bewildering array of measures available, and ambiguity regarding when and how to measure particular aspects of well-being, knowledge in the field can be difficult to reconcile. Representing numerous disciplines including psychology, economics, sociology, statistics, public health, theology, and philosophy, contributors consider the philosophical and theological traditions on happiness, well-being and the good life, as well as recent empirical research on well-being and its measurement. Leveraging insights across diverse disciplines, they explore how research can help make sense of the proliferation of different measures and concepts, while also proposing new ideas to advance the field. Some chapters engage with philosophical and theological traditions on happiness, well-being and the good life, some evaluate recent empirical research on well-being and consider how measurement requirements may vary by context and purpose, and others more explicitly integrate methods and synthesize knowledge across disciplines. The final section offers a lively dialogue about a set of recommendations for measuring well-being derived from a consensus of the contributors. Collectively, the chapters provide insight into how scholars might engage beyond disciplinary boundaries and contribute to advances in conceptualizing and measuring well-being. Bringing together work from across often siloed disciplines will provide important insight regarding how people can transcend unhealthy patterns of both individual behavior and social organization in order to pursue the good life and build better societies"--...