{"title":"No rush: The relational time ethic and faith-based medical clinics in the United States.","authors":"Carolyn Schwarz","doi":"10.1111/maq.70013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on ethnographic interviews with healthcare professionals from faith-based, Christian clinics in the United States, I develop the concept of the \"relational time ethic.\" This ethic refers to the ways that healthcare professionals seek to build relations with patients as persons and to demonstrate their valuing of lives through time expansion. In advancing this ethic, healthcare professionals are in part reflecting on their own well-being but are primarily making moral claims about the high quality of their care and critiquing a bureaucratic time model for healthcare delivery. The on-the-ground intricacies of the relational time ethic further anthropological understandings of the religious justifications for care and critique in biomedicine and bring attention to the ways that time comes to be constructed as an ethical practice in and of itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"e70013"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70013","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ANTHROPOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Based on ethnographic interviews with healthcare professionals from faith-based, Christian clinics in the United States, I develop the concept of the "relational time ethic." This ethic refers to the ways that healthcare professionals seek to build relations with patients as persons and to demonstrate their valuing of lives through time expansion. In advancing this ethic, healthcare professionals are in part reflecting on their own well-being but are primarily making moral claims about the high quality of their care and critiquing a bureaucratic time model for healthcare delivery. The on-the-ground intricacies of the relational time ethic further anthropological understandings of the religious justifications for care and critique in biomedicine and bring attention to the ways that time comes to be constructed as an ethical practice in and of itself.
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for the Analysis of Health publishes research and theory in the field of medical anthropology. This broad field views all inquiries into health and disease in human individuals and populations from the holistic and cross-cultural perspective distinctive of anthropology as a discipline -- that is, with an awareness of species" biological, cultural, linguistic, and historical uniformity and variation. It encompasses studies of ethnomedicine, epidemiology, maternal and child health, population, nutrition, human development in relation to health and disease, health-care providers and services, public health, health policy, and the language and speech of health and health care.
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