HEALTH, WELL-BEING, AND SPIRITUALITY a critical appraisal
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Dec 30, 2016
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Health, Well-being, Spirituality
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While paying attention to the patient’s spiritual experience, contemporary biomedicine induces major transformations to the notion of spirituality itself. In this article, I argue that one of these changes is a shift of the nature of spirituality. This shift in understood here as a process of « ethicization » of spirituality, that is a process of framing the spiritual experience in an ethical discourse. In its efforts to identify and name the components of the spiritual experience in time of illness, the biomedical language devised for this task uses categories and notions that pertain to the longstanding tradition of virtue ethics.
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JOBIN, Guy. HEALTH, WELL-BEING, AND SPIRITUALITY: a critical appraisal. INTERAÇÕES, Belo Horizonte, v. 11, n. 20, p. 31–47, 2016. DOI: 10.5752/P.1983-2478.2016v11n20p31. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/interacoes/article/view/P.1983-2478.2016v11n20p31. Acesso em: 25 oct. 2025.
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