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We need a vision of how medicine might serve the good of the whole human person: the body's health, but also the health of that piece of divinity in us.

Medicine, so long as you don't need it, is a tangential part of life, just one more profession among others. Until that is, a loved one suffers an accident or falls sick. Then, suddenly, medicine is quite literally, a matter of life or death. Medicine is also big business. Doctors have been reclassified as service providers, and patients are clients. Such commercialism breeds false incentives and inequalities, even in nations.

We need a vision of how medicine might serve the good of the whole human person: the body's health, but also the health of that piece of divinity in us. We need love and reverence for humans as they are, not humans as technology may someday engineer them to be. Jesus, the healer from Nazareth, showed what it means to love the imperfect, the frail, the average. The glory of the m

Plough Quarterly No. 17 The Soul of Medicine

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    A Paperback / softback by Stephanie Sadana, John M. Perkins, Sarah Williams

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      Publisher: Plough Publishing House
      Publication Date: 05/07/2018
      ISBN13: 9780874868470, 978-0874868470
      ISBN10: 0874868475

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      We need a vision of how medicine might serve the good of the whole human person: the body's health, but also the health of that piece of divinity in us.

      Medicine, so long as you don't need it, is a tangential part of life, just one more profession among others. Until that is, a loved one suffers an accident or falls sick. Then, suddenly, medicine is quite literally, a matter of life or death. Medicine is also big business. Doctors have been reclassified as service providers, and patients are clients. Such commercialism breeds false incentives and inequalities, even in nations.

      We need a vision of how medicine might serve the good of the whole human person: the body's health, but also the health of that piece of divinity in us. We need love and reverence for humans as they are, not humans as technology may someday engineer them to be. Jesus, the healer from Nazareth, showed what it means to love the imperfect, the frail, the average. The glory of the m

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