Something That Cannot Be Put into Words? Intensive Care, Secularity and the Sacred
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in intensive care units in three European countries, the aim of this article is to engage with issues of secularity and the sacred in contemporary biomedicine. Contemporary biomedicine plays well into the narrative of secularization. At the same time, faced...
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| Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2017]
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Implicit religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 167-186 |
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Intensive care
/ The Holy
/ Secularism
/ Biomedicine
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Medicine
B Ethnography B Secularization B Ethnology B Critical care medicine B SACRED & profane dichotomy B Sacred B intensive care units |
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