Post-secular accommodation and Catholic health care

Corporate identity and the public good

Bibliographic Data

ID12902103
AuthorsJoseph A Fardella (corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume11
Issue1
Pages47-61
Publication date2016-10-04
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17496535.2016.1234630
OpenAlexW2528180440
LanguageEN
References cited4

This paper explores the relevance of Jurgen Habermas’ ‘post-secular’ perspective in fostering inclusive conditions for a reasonable accommodation between the secular state and a Catholic facility in the provision of health care. It discusses the ethical merits and contradictions represented by the merger of a public psychiatric hospital with a Catholic rehabilitative hospital. The paper recognizes merits in the Catholic approach to health care, particularly its emphasis on social justice and the common good. However, it argues that from a post-secular perspective, the ‘official’ status given by this merged organization to Catholic healthcare ethics is wrong. That formally identifying the ethical priorities of a publicly funded hospital with a particular belief system limits possibilities for the reasonable accommodation of normative differences. Thus, the paper argues that re-framing Catholic health ethics within a more inclusive, non-denominational, post-secular approach toward the interpretation of health care, more fairly represents the public good

Accommodation · Ethics of care · Framing (construction · Health care · Interpretation (philosophy · Normative · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public health · Secular education · Secular state · Sociology · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development

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