Similarities and differences of care in a medical center.
Explicates a medical-pastoral paradigm in terms of eight "polar unities": natural science/theology; person/organism; efficient/teleodogical causality; multivocal/univocal language; quantitative/qualitative concerns; meaning/technical interventions; description/value; validation of intervention effectiveness. Suggests that these varieties of approaches may be illustrated in the ancient Oriental Yin-Yang symbol which includes the kind of "polar unity" implicit in a modern medical center.
D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D002604:Chaplaincy Service, Hospital; D006748:Hospital Departments; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010327:Pastoral Care