Hospital Caregivers' Own Religion in Relation to Their Perceptions of Psychosocial Inputs into Health and Healing
The physicians, nurses, and several types of allied caregivers (N=1,237) in three, suburban-Chicago medical centers were surveyed as to their openness to psychosocial/mind-body inputs in health and healing. Ideal types of biomedicine and psychosocial medicine were initially contrasted. Psychosocial...
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| Language: | English |
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1996
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Review of religious research
Year: 1996, Volume: 37, Issue: 4, Pages: 302-324 |
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| Summary: | The physicians, nurses, and several types of allied caregivers (N=1,237) in three, suburban-Chicago medical centers were surveyed as to their openness to psychosocial/mind-body inputs in health and healing. Ideal types of biomedicine and psychosocial medicine were initially contrasted. Psychosocial measures were constructed for holism, positive mindedness, social support, religious support, and patient equality. Holism turns out to be the broadest measure, and religious support the most unrelated and idiosyncratic. The caregivers generally are somewhat open to the psychosocial with the "mind" workers (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and chaplains) the most favorable. Catholic and Protestant caregivers profess higher levels of religious practice, with three-fourths of the religious "Nones" disclaiming any practice and very little agreement with the psychosocial. The survey asked the caregivers' preference among Martin Marty's four religio-philosophical "expectations" for healing. Over 70% prefer sympathy (God suffers with humankind but does not guarantee miracle cures). The remainder are scattered among synergist (new age), monergist (miraculous), and autogenesist (humanistic) views. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3512011 |