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01-10-2015 | Symposium: The Religious and Secular in Medicine and Health

Rescue: Faith in the Unlimited Future

Author: Helen Stanton Chapple

Published in: Society | Issue 5/2015

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Rescue activities in US acute care settings reaffirm an unspoken belief in an unlimited future for patients, families, clniicians, and the public at large. Reaching for that future erases the patient’s experiences in the present, which can be detrimental to her welfare. A case study is used to illustrate how clinicians’ urgency to reify their faith in the patient’s unlimited future violated her real-world existence.

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Title: Rescue: Faith in the Unlimited Future
Author: Helen Stanton Chapple
Publication date: 01-10-2015
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Society / Issue 5/2015
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-015-9925-z

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