Nursing the Spirit - Don Grant

Nursing the Spirit

Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable Strangers

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2023
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-20050-9 (ISBN)
145,90 inkl. MwSt
Don Grant investigates the subtle ways that nurses at an academic medical center incorporate spirituality into their care 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.
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.

Don Grant is professor of sociology at the University of Colorado, where he is a fellow at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute and directs the Social Innovation and Care, Health, and Resilience programs. He is also a recently ordained minister in the United Church of Christ who works with communities to design programs that address injustices revealed by the pandemic and climate crisis. Grant is a coauthor of Super Polluters: Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions (Columbia, 2020).

Preface
1. Religion and Care of the Stranger
2. The History of Caritas in Health Care
3. Craft Versions of Religious Authority
4. Second-Guessing Talk About Spirituality
5. Pathways to Spiritual Meaning and Emotional Dead Ends
6. Styles of Spiritual Care
7. Bridging Science and Spirituality Through Storytelling
8. Restoring the Sanctity Once Bestowed on Humanity
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege Ausbildung / Prüfung
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-231-20050-1 / 0231200501
ISBN-13 978-0-231-20050-9 / 9780231200509
Zustand Neuware
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