Josef Römelt gives a working paper on 'Welfare promise between medicine and religion. Religious salvation expectation and medical term of healing'

At the chair „moral theology and ethics” of the University of Erfurt a thesis is elaborated with the title: Medicine as salvation promises. The overtaxed health as theological-ethical problem. The work is dedicated to the question, to what extent the thesis of the health care as „pseudo religion“ is adequate for the present society. It describes an expansion of the requirements in the health system, which reaches up qualitatively to religious connotations. Particularly in the offer of wellness etc. it sees this quantitative and above all qualitative extension of expectations on the basis of linguistic analyses into the health sector. A subsequent research is considered to address in contrast to the present empirical investigation (which was based particularly on the statements of patients with chronic or with different weightier or also banal illnesses) patients, who are confronted with acute, life-threatening illnesses. This research should mean patients whose lifetime is presumably more limited (cancer!)  and goes around making a similar questioning at those patients who are very much more directly confronted with the urgency and existential relevance by expectations of healing and welfare both in the medical and in the spiritual/religious sense.