‘I was Born into Moral Injury’: Viral Implications of COVID-19 on Healthcare Chaplaincy

The COVID-19 pandemic quickly ruptured into pandemics. The multivalent stressors of the virus have laid bare the vast inequalities of the United States. These inequalities are brought to the surface in healthcare, and staff are confronted with three realities: caring for patients and families, carin...

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Autor principal: Morris, Joshua T. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Verificar disponibilidad: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: 2022
En: Journal of pastoral theology
Año: 2022, Volumen: 32, Número: 1, Páginas: 55-61
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AG Vida religiosa
CB Existencia cristiana
FD Teología contextual
KAJ Época contemporánea
KBQ América del Norte
RG Pastoral
Otras palabras clave:B Covid-19
B Healthcare Chaplaincy
B Intersectionality
B Moral Injury
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Sumario:The COVID-19 pandemic quickly ruptured into pandemics. The multivalent stressors of the virus have laid bare the vast inequalities of the United States. These inequalities are brought to the surface in healthcare, and staff are confronted with three realities: caring for patients and families, caring for interdisciplinary colleagues, and caring for oneself. However, within the reality of COVID-19 is the pandemic of anti-Black racism as a virus continuing to kill the vulnerable. Chaplains, tasked with providing holistic care, must harness an intersectional analysis for the ways in which the most vulnerable and marginalized are impacted by these pandemics. Utilizing the hermeneutical framework of moral injury, I argue that COVID-19 reveals a betrayal of our societal moral values and a revelatory clarion call that our silence in the face of anti-Black racism is complicity with its mendacity. To heal these wounds, solidarity becomes an embodied intervention.
ISSN:2161-4504
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Journal of pastoral theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2059227