GOD, DISEASE, AND SPIRITUAL DILEMMAS: READING THE LIVES OF WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER |
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Authors: | by Megan Eide Ann Milliken Pederson |
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Affiliation: | Master of Divinity student at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1100 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60615.;Professor of Religion at Augustana College, 2001 S. Summit, Sioux Falls, SD 57197 and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Section of Ethics and Humanities at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine. |
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Abstract: | To write about the disease of breast cancer from both scientific and spiritual perspectives is to reflect upon our genetic and spiritual ancestry. We examine the issues involved in breast cancer at the intersections of spirituality, technology, and science, using the fundamental thing we know about being human: our bodies. Our goal in this essay is to offer close readings of women's spiritual and bodily journeys through the disease of breast cancer. We have discovered that both illness and health come within the stories of particular people and particular disciplines. And to learn more about breast cancer, both scientific and spiritual aspects, one must be attentive to such particularities. Medicine and religion are bodily experiences, and being a body-self is what it means to be human. |
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Keywords: | ancestry biotechnology body-self breast cancer genes medical science religion |
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