Cyrelus Suparman Andi – Humanization of health care services in the catholic hospitals of Indonesia: how to promote health and healing

Excerpta ex dissertation ad Doctoratum in Theologia morali consequendum

Introduction

The history reveals that the progress of civilization leaves a paradox on human existence. On the one hand, the development and progress have produced  lot of convenience for human life and community. The development of science and technology, for esample, is one of the tremendous discoveries in the human history. It has transformed the human life into a wonderful phenomenon. The limited information about human existence that was know before, now has become complex ad more things have been discovered, such as the tiny and complicated organs, cells, their functions, and processes, etc.: all things that make the human being alive. Science and technology have also helped transformed the way human being relate to each other through the communication, transportation, and information technologies. Theu make the human life more comfortable, create human work more efficient, and facilitate the effectiveness of human relations, they are the realities of life that men have to engage with in order to flourish