Department of Communications, Sapir Academic College, Sderot, Israel.
Department of Public Policy and Management, Chairwoman, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
J Relig Health. 2024 Jun;63(3):1905-1933. doi: 10.1007/s10943-024-02014-7. Epub 2024 Feb 29.
We examine relationships among ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews, their doctors, and rabbis when medical decisions are made. Analyzing excerpts from sixteen focus groups with 128 ultra-Orthodox Jews, we determine how their belief system affects their decisions about whom to trust and follow when the doctor's instructions contradict the rabbi's advice. We argue that the strict behaviors described here with regard to relations among doctors, rabbis, and patients, function as social capital that raises the status of ultra-Orthodox Jews as members of an exclusive club that balances health decisions with the social demand to obey their religious leaders.
我们研究了在做出医疗决策时,以色列极端正统派犹太人、他们的医生和拉比之间的关系。通过分析 16 个有 128 名极端正统派犹太人参加的焦点小组的摘录,我们确定了他们的信仰体系如何影响他们在医生的指示与拉比的建议相矛盾时,决定信任和追随谁。我们认为,这里描述的与医生、拉比和患者之间关系有关的严格行为,起到了社会资本的作用,提高了极端正统派犹太人作为一个排他性俱乐部成员的地位,这个俱乐部在平衡健康决策与服从宗教领袖的社会需求方面发挥了作用。