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This paper discusses how healthcare's efforts to defeat death have led to a crisis in caring.It's efforts to escape death by defeating it have upset the balance between task-oriented caring and relationship-oriented caring. Healthcare's belief that it can defeat death is influenced by the escapist theology of St. Augustine's interpretation of Genesis 1-3. An effective response to the crisis in caring emphasizes an encounter theology that encounters death as a presence. Such an encounter can restore a balance to task-and relationship-oriented caring.
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I believe healthcare is driven more by it's belief that it can actually defeat death than by economic factors. Such a belief changes the effectiveness of of caring for the sick is rendered.
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This page is a summary of: What Life Says to Death: The Crisis in Caring, The Caregiver Journal, December 1996, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1077842x.1996.10781750.
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