Abstract
In his 2019 book Pastoral Aesthetics, Nathan Carlin reviews origin stories of bioethics, especially the ones generally told about how the field of bioethics came to be based on tragedies and technologies. This article highlights another origin story to further expand and build on the work Carlin has done to bring life to the dry and thin principles in bioethics. That story involves the history of psychiatry and clinical pastoral education. The intersections between these two strands of history illuminate the contingent nature of the frameworks of theories and meanings used to understand and help people and human interactions.
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Hirshbein, L.D. A Consideration of Pastoral Aesthetics from the Perspective of History. Pastoral Psychol 70, 601–606 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-021-00975-0
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