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Nov 22 2020
Running Head: RELIGION AND ETHICS IN HEALTHCARE
RELIGION AND ETHICS IN HEALTHCARE 1
How Religion and Ethics in Healthcare Connect to One Anothe
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Introduction
Religion gives the rules that control great wellbeing and prosperity, including social help, existential significance, a feeling of direction, a reasonable conviction framework, a manual for a sound way of life and an unmistakable good code. As stated by Holman (2017), empowering of the patient occurs through awareness of religious standards, for example, the sacredness of human life, shared personality, and important jobs in the network and society everywhere, an assortment of spiritual, societal and monetary assistance, informal communities, and even administration for social change and security in time of contentions. The topic of religious impact in healthcare has only recently gained special attention, prior to which it was considered to be an outsider of the scientific sphere. The thesis statement for this report is how religion and ethics in healthcare connect to one another with a focus on the ethical concerns of letting religion influence your decisions when dealing with a patient’s health.
Relation of Religion and Ethics in Healthcare to One Anothe
In a world blooming with technological advancements in the medical field, it was a common perception that there exists no scientific methods to study the religious impact on the healthcare, with ethical considerations of the medical practitioners obstructing the development of this particular topic. As supported by VanderWeele, Balboni and Balboni (2018), not this topic is not only researchable but has revealed significant impacts on the psychological health of the patients, which is accepted by physicians, clinicians and psychologists. The matters related to healthcare are genuinely important for the patient as they may ultimately lead to situations involving life and death, there must exist a suitable degree of trust and comfort between the patients and physicians.
Some people place religious beliefs at the core of their identity and attribute certain aspects of their health to the same. Hence, it is imperative for the physicians to completely know the values and beliefs their patients follow and practice. A position, which maintains that religion play a role in healthcare must be adopted to ensure a sound medical practitioner and patient relationship working in tandem to achieve the therapeutic goals, ethically abiding by the patients’ beliefs. As mentioned by Oman (2018), the major ethical issues arise on both ends of the physicians as well as the patients, many of whom consider religious beliefs to take decisions such as choosing the entire healthcare a
angements based on religious parameters, diet, daily routine, lifestyle, type of physician and even in the scheduling of the treatments accordingly.
An individual looking for medicinal services can have religious ethics to comply with respect to their unobtrusiveness, for example, accepting treatment from somebody of the contrary sex. Likewise, certain beliefs have every day required supplications, which could eventually influence the planning of somebody's medications. As mentioned by Timmins et al. (2018), diets likewise are an expansive impact on numerous societies and convictions, which can prompt issues in regards to human services treatment. A patients may require uncommon a
angements to be made with their sustenance, and potential medicines, to ensure they fall in accordance with their convictions.
In light of these contemplations, Hovland, Niede
iter and Thoman (2018), point out that health psychological science ought to develop a comprehension of how religion is felt, lived, and experienced by the populaces of intrigue. Firstly, the vast variety of religions and practices, poses an issue of multidimensionality, which compels the physicians to stick to the concepts of science only. Secondly, the time allotted to each patient by the physician is limited, which restricts the physician’s concerns to technical aspects only. Thirdly, it is an inherent belief that religion and science are poles apart while others are of the opinion that the religious beliefs of a person are too private to be discussed with one’s physician and must be confined within the community itself.
As supported by Oman and Neuhauser (2018), vast varieties of empirical research has shown the interdependence of health measures with the religion based indices of an individual such as religious involvement, prayers and self-attained spirituality. But there have been less developments on the issue of this intersection due to the commonly accepted ethical boundaries when it comes to physician involvement, which include firstly, that there is a scarcity of knowledge, proper training and time devotion on this issue particularly. Secondly there persists a common discomfort with the...