Pragmatic Secularism; Or, What The Scarlet Letter Can Teach Us about Modern Medicine

This article argues that The Scarlet Letter (1850) offers a unique insight into American secularism's inherent pragmatism—a pragmatism that attempts to provide a resolution for the healing arts' struggle to be knowledgeable and moral at the same time. A “pragmatic secularism” continues to...

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Main Author: Bezio, Kelly L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2018]
In: Studies in religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 223-245
Further subjects:B Pragmatic secularism
B The Checklist Manifesto
B Morality
B Nathaniel Hawthorne
B labor and work
B Atul Gawande
B epistemic fetishism
B The Scarlet Letter
B Medicine and religion
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