Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2012.729262
Title: Culture-Centered Engagement With Delivery of Health Services: Co-Constructing Meanings of Health in the Tzu Chi Foundation Through Buddhist Philosophy
Authors: Dillard, S.J.
Dutta, M. 
Sun, W.-S.
Issue Date: 2014
Citation: Dillard, S.J., Dutta, M., Sun, W.-S. (2014). Culture-Centered Engagement With Delivery of Health Services: Co-Constructing Meanings of Health in the Tzu Chi Foundation Through Buddhist Philosophy. Health Communication 29 (2) : 147-156. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2012.729262
Abstract: The shift in health communication scholarship from the narrow focus on curing to the complexly intertwined spaces of health, illness, healing, and curing attends to the dynamic cultural contexts within which meanings and practices are negotiated, directing scholarship toward alternative spaces of health care delivery. This study utilized the culture-centered approach as a theoretical lens for providing a discursive space for understanding meanings of health constituted in the practices of the Tzu Chi Foundation, an organization that offers biomedical services within the larger philosophical understandings of Buddhism with 10 million members in over 50 different countries. The emerging perspective promotes non-biomedical meanings of health through selfless giving and assistance founded in Buddhist principles, simultaneously seeking purity of the mind, body, and soul holistically. Through the negotiation of the principles driving Buddhist philosophy and the principles that shape biomedical health care delivery, this study seeks to understand the interpretive frames that circulate among foundation staff and care recipients. © 2014 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
Source Title: Health Communication
URI: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/124277
ISSN: 10410236
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2012.729262
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