Dillard Sydney J, Dutta Mohan, Sun Wei-San
a College of Communication DePaul University.
Health Commun. 2014;29(2):147-56. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2012.729262. Epub 2013 Mar 13.
The shift in health communication scholarship from the narrow focus on curing to the complexly intertwined spaces of health, illness, healing, and curing attends to the dynamic cultural contexts within which meanings and practices are negotiated, directing scholarship toward alternative spaces of health care delivery. This study utilized the culture-centered approach as a theoretical lens for providing a discursive space for understanding meanings of health constituted in the practices of the Tzu Chi Foundation, an organization that offers biomedical services within the larger philosophical understandings of Buddhism with 10 million members in over 50 different countries. The emerging perspective promotes non-biomedical meanings of health through selfless giving and assistance founded in Buddhist principles, simultaneously seeking purity of the mind, body, and soul holistically. Through the negotiation of the principles driving Buddhist philosophy and the principles that shape biomedical health care delivery, this study seeks to understand the interpretive frames that circulate among foundation staff and care recipients.
健康传播学术研究的重点已从狭隘的治愈关注，转向健康、疾病、康复和治愈相互交织的复杂领域，关注意义和实践得以协商的动态文化背景，引导学术研究关注医疗保健提供的其他领域。本研究采用以文化为中心的方法作为理论视角，提供一个话语空间，以理解慈济基金会实践中所建构的健康意义。慈济基金会是一个在佛教哲学更广泛理解范围内提供生物医学服务的组织，在50多个不同国家拥有1000万成员。新出现的观点通过基于佛教教义的无私奉献和援助来促进健康的非生物医学意义，同时从整体上寻求心灵、身体和灵魂的纯净。通过对驱动佛教哲学的原则与塑造生物医学医疗保健提供的原则进行协商，本研究旨在理解在基金会工作人员和受助者中流传的解释框架。
