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Fall 2015 |Volume 33, Issue 3
Health Beyond The Hospital
Health is not just the province of the hospital, or even just the health-care industry. Just as nurses and doctors and patients are dependent on the architect, engineers, and plant managers, so the health-care industry is dependent on homes, families, churches, and schools to cultivate a healthy citizenry and a healthy society.
This issue of Comment invites you to consider aspects of health and health care that don't always get our attention.
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- Editorial: Health Beyond the Hospital
Because a healthy social architecture requires healthy citizens
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- World View
An annotated reading of your world. Topics this issue include Calvinist vacations, a visit paid to the Clapham House, too-long political campaigns, praise for newspapers, and attacks on video games.
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- Headquarters
Our Social Cities program asks, Are local faith communities growing or shrinking? Are people more or less involved in neighbourhood groups than they have been in the past?
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- Mortals Telling Stories on the Threshold of Mystery
If we want a better medicine, we have to become better patients, and that means becoming better storytellers.
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- Trusting Math
Sometimes caring about numbers is how we care for the vulnerable. Sometimes it’s a way of effacing the image of God
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- Democratizing Community Health
Money for health care often bypasses the powerless.
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- Learning to Let Go
Seeking wisdom at the end of life.
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- "Healthism" and a Healthy Society: A Conversation with Margaret Somerville, part II
Stretching the imagination of a secular society.
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- In the Bodies and Labours of Women
Maternal testimony should not be treated as auxiliary to the real work of modern medicine, but instead should be esteemed and sought after as a foundational building block for the delivery of health care.
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- Mortality and the Limits of Medicine
Why is the experiment of turning dying into a medical experience failing?
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- The Commons: Death Is Natural
A culture of life cares for the dying.
Contributors to this Issue
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Bryan Kibbe Dr. Bryan Kibbe is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago, where he earned his PhD in Philosophy. Bio -
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James K.A. Smith James K.A. Smith was the editor-in-chief of Comment from 2013-2018, and teaches philosophy at Calvin College. He is the new editor-in-chief of Image Journal. Bio -
Jonathan Patrick Jonathan Patrick is an associate professor at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa. Bio -
Margaret Somerville Margaret Somerville is Founding Director Emerita of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University. Bio -
Marilyn McEntyre Marilyn McEntyre is a former professor and fellow at Westmont College, and the author of Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. Bio -
Matthew Loftus Matthew Loftus teaches and practices Family Medicine in Baltimore and East Africa. Bio -
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Raymond C. Barfield Raymond C. Barfield is Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Bio
