Farr Curlin
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“"A profoundly important book for every physician who wonders why they no longer experience joy in the practice of medicine, and for every medical student who wants to understand the malaise of their profession. If Downing is right, and he certainly is, then medicine has been hijacked by a well-intentioned but ultimately perverse crusade for biohealth. In the name of 'health promotion and disease prevention,' physicians are made to overscreen, overmedicate, and generally harass their patients, ultimately worrying them sick rather than making them well. Reading this book is the first step toward getting off the biohealth conveyor belt. Join the resistance.”
Science & Faith
“In this remarkable little book, Raymond Downing puts biomedicine under the lens, not of the scientist’s microscope, but of the narrative of the Christian Bible. The ascetic path he proposes requires a radical reconfiguring of the place of biomedicine in human life. But if this path were followed by even a tiny proportion of physicians in America, those physicians might become to contemporary medicine what the Hippocratic reform movement was to the corrupted medicine of ancient Greece.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In this masterful little book Gilbert Meilaender interrogates the project to extend human life indefinitely and shows that longer life cannot satisfy the deeply human longings that animate that project. Better, he proposes, to cultivate the virtue of patience in the face of our mortal limits. Not a patience of resignation, but a patience marked by gratitude for the gift of life, including its limits, and by eager hope for the fullness of life promised by the God who died so that we might live.”
Christian Living
“In these true stories, Collins shows how the practice of medicine confronted him with the mystery of being human and became a journey to the heart of God.”
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