The (Un)Expected Gift: Implicated Religion in the Kidney Transplant Experience
Receiving an organ is an event that marks a turning point in the patient’s life trajectory, not only because it marks the beginning of a new phase in the therapeutic process, but also because it opens up an unprecedented existential perspective in the recipient. This perspective is typically told th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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Implicit religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 25, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 175-191 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Southern Italy (motif)
/ Spirituality
/ Kidney transplantation
/ Spiritual care
/ Invisible religion
/ Geschichte 2019
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion KBJ Italy NCH Medical ethics TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Illness narrative B Spiritual care B kidney transplant |
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| Summary: | Receiving an organ is an event that marks a turning point in the patient’s life trajectory, not only because it marks the beginning of a new phase in the therapeutic process, but also because it opens up an unprecedented existential perspective in the recipient. This perspective is typically told through an autobiographical narrative marked by an implicitly religious or spiritual vocabulary centred on the feeling of rebirth and the sacredness of organ donation. Starting from the analysis of a corpus of qualitative interviews, the article aims to show the spirituality implicit in the autobiographical narratives of a group of members of the Associazione Nazionale Emo-Dializzati (ANED) of Turin (Italy). The data indicate that this implicit dimension is the product of a co-construction between patients and health workers in the context of the specific organizational culture of the hospital ward. This finding suggests possible directions for the implementation of spiritual care interventions in clinical practice. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.23883 |