Health Beyond The Hospital

Because a healthy social architecture requires healthy citizens

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.

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?

If we want a better medicine, we have to become better patients, and that means becoming better storytellers.

Sometimes caring about numbers is how we care for the vulnerable. Sometimes it’s a way of effacing the image of God

Money for health care often bypasses the powerless.

Seeking wisdom at the end of life.

Stretching the imagination of a secular society.

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.

Why is the experiment of turning dying into a medical experience failing?

A culture of life cares for the dying.