Reimer-Kirkham Sheryl
Trinity Western University, Langley, BC, V2Y 1Y1, Canada.
Nurs Ethics. 2009 Jul;16(4):406-17. doi: 10.1177/0969733009104605.
This article explores how ethics and religion interface in everyday life by drawing on a study examining the negotiation of religious and spiritual plurality in health care. Employing methods of critical ethnography, namely, interviews and participant observation, data were collected from patients, health care providers, administrators and spiritual care providers. The findings revealed the degree to which 'lived religion' was intertwined with 'lived ethics' for many participants; particularly for people from the Sikh faith. For these participants, religion was woven into everyday life, making distinctions between public and private, secular and sacred spaces improbable. Individual interactions, institutional resource allocation, and social discourses are all embedded in social relationships of power that prevent religion from being a solely personal or private matter. Strategies for the reintegration of religion into nursing ethics are: adjusting professional codes and theories of ethics to reflect the influence of religion; and the contribution of critical perspectives, such as postcolonial feminism, to the understanding of lived ethics.
本文通过一项研究探讨伦理与宗教在日常生活中的相互关系，该研究考察了医疗保健领域宗教与精神多元性的协商。采用批判性民族志方法，即访谈和参与观察，从患者、医疗保健提供者、管理人员和精神护理提供者那里收集数据。研究结果表明，对许多参与者来说，尤其是锡克教信仰者，“实践中的宗教”与“实践中的伦理”交织的程度之深。对这些参与者而言，宗教融入了日常生活，使得区分公共与私人、世俗与神圣空间变得不太可能。个体互动、机构资源分配和社会话语都嵌入在权力的社会关系中，这使得宗教不再仅仅是个人或私人事务。将宗教重新融入护理伦理的策略包括：调整职业道德规范和伦理理论以反映宗教的影响；以及后殖民女权主义等批判性视角对理解实践伦理的贡献。
