Illness and death have always raised profound spiritual concerns.
However, today most people experience suffering and treatment in
hospitals and other impersonal, bureaucratic facilities whose
employees are expected to follow scientific, rationalized norms of
behavior. How do professional caregivers-the nurses and other
workers who tend to patients-navigate between science and
spirituality? Don Grant investigates the subtle ways that nurses at
an academic medical center incorporate spirituality into their care
work. Based on extensive fieldwork and an in-depth survey on
spirituality, this book finds that many nurses see themselves as
responsible for not only patients' physical health but also their
spiritual well-being. They believe they are able to reconcile
science and spirituality through storytelling and claim that they
can provide more spiritual care than chaplains. However, nurses
rarely talk about religion among themselves because they are
concerned that their colleagues are uncomfortable discussing
spirituality. Nevertheless, by seeking to honor patients' ultimate
worth as human beings, many nurses are able to instantiate
spiritual values of care. Grant interweaves his experiences as a
hospital volunteer chaplain and a living liver-transplant donor
with empirical analyses of nurses' spiritual work. Developing a new
understanding of the social significance of religion, Nursing the
Spirit recasts the intersection of science and spirituality by
centering the perspectives of the people who provide care.
General
Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
Authors: |
Don Grant
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-20051-6 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-231-20051-X |
Barcode: |
9780231200516 |
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