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Christian Bioethics Advance Access originally published online on July 20, 2009
Christian Bioethics 2009 15(2):136-146; doi:10.1093/cb/cbp007
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of The Journal of Christian Bioethics, Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following Christian Bioethics issue: Diakonia II: Care-Taking in the Medical Realm and its Political Implementation [View the issue table of contents]

Health and Nurturing for Body, Mind, and Soul: The German Müttergenesungswerk between Family Politics and Health Care

Beate Hofmann

Lutheran University of Applied Sciences, Nuremberg, Germany

Address correspondence to: Dr. Beate Hofmann, PhD, Professor for Christian Education, Evangelische Fachhochschule Nürnberg, Bärenschanzstrasse 4, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany. E-mail: beate.hofmann{at}evfh-nuernberg.de


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The article argues for a strong connection of spiritual and physical care and investigates the question of state- versus church-related social work through the example of a Lutheran women's organization that offers mothers’ recuperation. Through this example, it becomes obvious that too much involvement of the government is as much an obstacle as too little involvement that leaves the question of standards and regulations to the economic competition of social services.

Keywords: economization of social work, holistic approach, subsidiarity, theology of vocation


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