Plough Quarterly No. 17- The Soul of Medicine
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Plough Quarterly No. 17- The Soul of Medicine by Stephanie Sadaa
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 medical profession is that it is dedicated to these works of mercy. In today’s money-driven healthcare industry, such tasks are often poorly rewarded. Yet they’re at the heart of medicine’s original mission. Also in this issue: original poetry by Suzanne Harlan Heyd; reviews of new books by Barbara Ehrenreich, Ryan T. Anderson, Beth Macy, and David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé; and art by Tim Lowly, Michelangelo, Julian Peters, Wanjin Gim, Scott Goldsmith, Jan Mostaert, Suleiman Mansour, Cécile Massie, Peter Doig, Erin Hanson, and Jason Landsel. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus’ message into practice and find common cause with others.
Williams, Sarah J.: - Sarah J. Williams is a freelance journalist who lives in a big house in Skü¾¦˜¼llersta, Sweden with her half-British family and two cats. Sarah started writing books long before she could spell and is currently working on a romance novel based in Britain during World War One.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780874868470 |
| ISBN 10 | 0874868475 |
| Title | Plough Quarterly No. 17- The Soul of Medicine |
| Author | Stephanie Sadaa |
| Series | Plough Quarterly Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Plough Publishing House |
| Year published | 2018-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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