A curated library for Christian faith and the practice of medicine.
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
To be healthy is literally to be whole; to heal is to make whole.— Wendell Berry, Health is Membership
Medicine is there to restore what can be restored of health so that the person can continue to seek the fullness of life.— Farr Curlin, How Shall We Then Practice
Only health professionals who are grateful can be joyful. To be joyful is to be attentive to the profound meaning of the privilege or serving the sick and to be grateful for that privilege.— Daniel P. Sulmasy, The Healer's Calling
The physician's basic pledge is not to cure, but to care .— Stanley Hauerwas, Why Medicine Needs the Church
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
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
Health can never be anything other than a secondary good.— Margaret E. Morhmann, Medicine as Ministry
Health care, in the final analysis, is not about results... Health care is about being there with people in their finitude and doubt, in their pain and uncertainty.— Daniel P. Sulmasy The Healer's Calling
