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01-10-2020 | Care | Philosophical Exploration
A More Excellent Way: Recovering Mystery in COVID Care
Author:
Joshua D. Genig
Published in:
Journal of Religion and Health
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Issue 5/2020
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Abstract
This article explores the fundamental role of mystery in the care of patients suffering from COVID-19. Specific attention is paid to the disparity between modern and post-modern approaches to mystery and how medical instruction and care has often been conducted in the vein of the former. However, with post-moderns now being trained as medical clinicians and serving on the frontlines of this pandemic, there is an opportunity to return to a more ancient manner of understanding humanity, one which places mystery on equal footing with chemistry.