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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.