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Religion, Bioethics and Nursing Practice
- Source :
- Nursing Ethics. 16:393-405
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2009.
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Abstract
- This article calls nursing to engage in the study of religions and identifies six considerations that arise in religious studies and the ways in which religious faith is expressed. It argues that whole-person care cannot be realized, neither can there be a complete understanding of bioethics theory and decision making, without a rigorous understanding of religious-ethical systems. Because religious traditions differ in their cosmology, ontology, epistemology, aesthetic, and ethical methods, and because religious subtraditions interact with specific cultures, each religion and subtradition has something distinctive to offer to ethical discourse. A brief example is drawn from Native American religions, specifically their view of `speech' and `words'. Although the example is particular to an American context, it is intended to demonstrate a more general principle that an understanding of religion per se can yield new insights for bioethics.
- Subjects :
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Social Values
Attitude of Health Personnel
Transcultural Nursing
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Religious philosophy
Context (language use)
Documentation
Patient Advocacy
Social value orientations
Faith
Cultural diversity
Humans
Sociology
Social science
Folklore
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Communication
Lived religion
Cultural Diversity
Bioethics
Religious controversies
United States
Epistemology
Religion
Nursing Research
Issues, ethics and legal aspects
Indians, North American
Attitude to Health
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14770989 and 09697330
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nursing Ethics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....68d9fd6d2d1182e72eb076651be28915