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Why is loss present but rarely spoken of in the hospital system? How does such silence carry over to the practices of chaplains who accompany dying patients and grieving families? Richard Coble critically examines his experiences as a hospital chaplain to analyze the place of spiritual care in wider trends vexing healthcare today, including its persistent disparities and its related inability to reckon with human decline. Simultaneously, he offers routes for chaplains to be a force of change.
Richard Coble, PhD is associate pastor of congregational care and adult education at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church and adjunct professor of pastoral care for Lexington Theological Seminary.
Introduction1. Modern Hospital Chaplaincy:Negotiations2. The Biopolitical Sphere: Theories of Spirituality and Chaplaincy Care3. Selling Life, Silencing Death in Current Healthcare Biopolitics4. Bio-Psycho-Socio-Spiritual Medicine5. How to Subvert the Biopolitics of Healthcare I: The Chaplain’s Experience6. How to Subvert the Biopolitics of Healthcare II: The Chaplain’s LanguageConclusion: Self-Loss and a Biopolitics of Life
Coble’s book is an important addition to pastoral care literature. This is a book all chaplains and pastoral care scholars will want to read.