A study of the role of the acute health care chaplain in England
This thesis explores the world and work of the acute health care chaplain in England through an examination of chaplaincy history, literature and experience. The core evidence used in the thesis is a body of empirical material within which health care chaplains articulate for themselves the key issues of working within Acute Care. This material provides an insight into how health care chaplains understood and managed their roles in hospitals during the early part of the 1990s. The thesis falls into three parts. The first part sets the study within a particular framework explaining the method and sociological background to the study. Chapter 1 explains the rationale and content of the study. Chapter 2 sets out the objectives and methodology undergirding this study of the role of the acute health care chaplain. Chapter 3 places the study within the sociology of professions and contextualises the place of clergy in today's society. The second part of the thesis presents the data. Chapter 4 provides the necessary historical background in order to understand how health care chaplaincy has developed since the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. It also presents necessary information on the organisation
Woodward, James Welford
Philosophy
A study of the role of the acute health care chaplain in England. This thesis explores the world and work of the acute health care chaplain in England through an examination of chaplaincy history, literature and experience. The core evidence used in the thesis is a body of empirical material within which health care chaplains articulate for themselves the key issues of working within Acute Care. This material provides an insight into how health care chaplains understood and managed their roles in hospitals during the early part of the 1990s. The thesis falls into three parts. The first part sets the study within a particular framework explaining the method and sociological background to the study. Chapter 1 explains the rationale and content of the study. Chapter 2 sets out the objectives and methodology undergirding this study of the role of the acute health care chaplain. Chapter 3 places the study within the sociology of professions and contextualises the place of clergy in today's society. The second part of the thesis presents the data. Chapter 4 provides the necessary historical background in order to understand how health care chaplaincy has developed since the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. It also presents necessary information on the organisation
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