“But I Am Afflicted” Attending to Persons in Pain and Modern Health Care
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2023-12-01
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Over one in five adults in the United States and around the world are estimated to live with chronic pain. How are we to attend well to persons living with pain? This is a difficult, pressing question for both healthcare institutions and Christian communities, and it is only made more complex both by the contemporary opioid crisis and by how experiences of pain and addiction are shaped in the American context by race, gender, and class. Attending faithfully to persons in pain demands thoughtful, creative resources on both practical and conceptual levels. In this special issue of Christian Bioethics, eight scholars from different disciplines—Sarah Barton, Farr Curlin, Jaime Konerman-Sease, Brett McCarty, Joel Shuman, Devan Stahl, John Swinton, and Emmy Yang—engage the meaning of attending to persons in pain for Christian bioethics and for faithful Christian practice.
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Barton, SJ, and B McCarty (2023). “But I Am Afflicted” Attending to Persons in Pain and Modern Health Care. Christian Bioethics, 29(3). pp. 177–182. 10.1093/cb/cbad016 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/33816.
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Sarah Jean Barton
Program Director; Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School
I hold a dual appointment in the School of Medicine and Duke Divinity School. My primary areas of scholarship include Christian theology and ethics, disability studies, accessible education, and occupational therapy. I focus on participatory research methodologies in partnership with people experiencing intellectual disabilities as well as educational research on access.
Education
Doctor of Theology
Certificate in Reflective and Faithful Teaching
Duke Divinity School (Durham, NC, USA), 2014 - 2019
Master of Theological Studies
summa cum laude, Certificate in Anglican Studies
Duke Divinity School (Durham, NC, USA), 2012-2014
Master of Science
Occupational Therapy, Pi Theta Epsilon
Boston University (Boston, MA, USA), 2009-2012
Bachelor of Science
magna cum laude, Biology
Seattle Pacific University (Seattle, WA, USA), 2005-2009
Michael Brett McCarty
Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke School of Medicine
Assistant Research Professor of Theological Ethics & Associate Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative, Duke Divinity School
I hold a dual appointment in the School of Medicine's Department of Population Health Sciences and Duke Divinity School. My primary areas of scholarship include addiction and community engagement, bioethics, political theology, public health, and theological ethics. My current research projects focus on competing conceptions of agency within the modern hospital, religious responses to the opioid crisis, and developing new interdisciplinary work at the intersection of theology and public health.
Areas of Expertise: Addiction and Community Engagement, Bioethics, Qualitative Research, Political Theology, and Theological Ethics
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