A curated library for Christian faith and the practice of medicine.
Person-centered care isn't really a method. It's just a way of being with people. Within healthcare systems we can become quite task-oriented and instrumental in our practices. The idea of person-centered care is simply a way of drawing our attention back to the centrality of the person.— John Swinton, Interview with NorthPark University
The physician's basic pledge is not to cure, but to care .— Stanley Hauerwas, Why Medicine Needs the Church
Health can never be anything other than a secondary good.— Margaret E. Morhmann, Medicine as Ministry
One might well ask whether we desire to live in order to live healthily and well, or whether we desire to be healthy and virtuous merely in order to stay alive.— Leon Kass, Regarding the End of Medicine and the Pursuit of Health
Just as you should not to attempt to cure the eyes without curing the head, or the head without the body, neither should you attempt to cure the body without the soul.— Plato, Charmides
Along with all creation, medicine will ultimately be redeemed in the age to come. In the in-between time, it is our task to happily participate in God’s work.— Farr Curlin, How Shall We Then Practice
Health is to be sought in and for God, not instead of God.— Margaret E. Mohrmann, Medicine as Ministry
Health-seeking behavior is not death prevention; it is life enhancement.— Margaret E. Mohrmann, Medicine as Ministry
Abortion is not a question about the law, but about what kind of people we are to be as the church and as Christians.— Stanley Hauerwas Abortion, Theologically Understood
To be healthy is literally to be whole; to heal is to make whole.— Wendell Berry, Health is Membership
