The Angel and the IV Pump.
- Resource Type
- Essay
- Authors
- Frank, Arthur
- Source
- Society. Oct2015, Vol. 52 Issue 5, p469-474. 6p.
- Subject
- *CHRISTIANITY & medicine
*ANGELS in Christianity
*JACOB (Biblical patriarch) in art
*CANCER & religion
*CHRISTIANITY
DISEASES & religion
- Language
- ISSN
- 0147-2011
This essay imagines a working complementarity between religion and medicine, based on a discussion of two images: Marc Chagall's depiction of Jacob being blessed by an angel and a photo of an intensive care unit. The question is whether medicine necessarily disenchants, in Weber's sense. I argue there are other ways to understand the multiple agencies at work in the ICU photo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]