Abstract
The aim of this paper is to set up the configuration of the body "in and out of the hospital" and "outside of the configuration" so that we can build a new foundation for the study of contemporary medicine, religion, and spirituality. As an emergent issue, it seems we are living in the circumstances where the ideal figure of a clinic (the field of cure) presented by researchers does not reach the involved people as easily as it reaches physicians, practitioners and patients. They understand the ideal cure as "listening to the patient," "quality of life," and "narrative-based medicine." However, the body of each individual is allocated according to the routine of the hospital, and they tend to grasp their own figure as physician, practitioner and patient and become isolated from the ideal cure. This paper is written with an expectation that the new foundation for the study of medicine, religion, and spirituality is made possible by listening to the straying of the body which comes out unintentionally through such an allocation, and by conceptualizing the field in which researchers are sensitive to the straying of the allocated body. We hope to better see the horizon of study through synchronization with the persons concerned, where the researchers are aware of the configuration of their own body.
