Sacraments’ in the Hospital
Exploring the Magic and Religion of Recovery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7640756 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Van Der Geest (0000-0002-9943-6415, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author), Sjaak Van Der Geest |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-150 |
| Publication date | 2005-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-8470 • E-ISSN: 1469-2910 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13648470500139957 |
| PMID | 26868461 |
| OpenAlex | W2122939041 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article proposes to look at the ritual dimension of hospital work, a chain of words and acts, which fill patients with hope for a 'future life'. Conventional boundaries between magic, science and religion are reconsidered. The author argues that biomedicine, far from being a cultural no-man's land, represents the basic values of culture. It provides a space where doctors, nurses and patients find their deepest convictions and values demonstrated and confirmed. Medical words and interventions express and re-create people's belief in the canons of science and biomedicine as ultimate truth. Pointing out the religious dimension of medicine in no way belittles medicine's role and therapeutic efficacy. Rather it provides us with a better understanding of the 'mechanics' of recovery
Biomedicine · Cultural, Psychoanalytic, and Sociopolitical Reflections · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
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Pathways to Inhumane Care
Practices of Ritualization in a Dutch Hospice Setting
Hope, Religious Behaviors, and Attachment to God
Navigating Complexity
Ritualization as Alternative Approach to the Spiritual Dimension of Palliative Care
Both Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Orientation are Positively Associated with Attitudes Toward Cleanliness
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Malicious Whites, Greedy Women, and Virtuous Volunteers
Patients' perspectives on hospitalisation
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The liminality of kidney failure in South African state hospitals
Purity and Danger
Emptying Beds
The Private Worlds of Dying Children
The laws of sympathetic magic
The cultural diversity of healing
Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays
Medicine, Rationality and Experience
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Magic and Modernity
The Interpretation of Ritual
A General Theory of Magic
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Anthropology of Symbolic Healing [and Comments and Reply]
Magic, science, religion, and the scope of rationality
Schism and heresy in the development of orthodox medicine
Traditional thought and modern western surgery
The ambiguity of symbols in the structure of healing
Anthropology of medicine
Christ as a pharmacist
Ritual in the Operating Room
The Birth of the Clinic
Deciding Who Lives. Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery
Symbols for Communication
Universal Aspects of Symbolic Healing
The Notion of Magic
Healing and the invention of metaphor
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |