Increasingly, healthcare workers feel alienated from their work as their perception is that the medical field has become increasingly depersonalized, technology-driven, and fueled by institutions prioritizing economic profit. Many people in this profession feel a longing for a renewed sense of the transcendent meaning of their work, perhaps for a return to the spiritual elements of healing.
Not long after atrocities of World War II, the United Nations published the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with much of the groundwork and support having been done by Eleanor Roosevelt, delegate to the United Nations who was First Lady of the United States at the time (the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt). As you read the U.N. Declaration, it is likely that you noticed a correlation between the thirty articles of the Declaration with Catholic Christian understandings of human rights.
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Part 1
Provide a response to Sulmasys question: Is Healthcare a Spiritual Practice? Provide a brief citation or reference to the Sulmasy text or another appropriate resource from this module.
Part 2
Choose two articles from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Find similar ideas within the corpus of Catholic Social Teaching from this or our previous module such as the Seven Themes of CST or the newsletter of the Felician Sisters. Are the understanding of human rights exactly the same, roughly correlative, or unrelated? Explain.
Testimonials
Discuss: Determining if Healthcare a Spiritual Practice and Violations of Human Rights/Human Dignity