Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count Vintage 2022 What is your relationship to time ? How long is that To Do list ? And what about those good intentions we start any day with? This Saturday started quite well – an early start and off to […]
A crisis of Care ?
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Contrast two scenes. The first is a restaurant – where the food is carefully prepared and warmly served in an atmosphere which seeks to delight its customers. The second is a hospital. Parking the car is nearly impossible – the long impersonal corridors where people avoid eye contact. The noisy ward – the short temered […]
Vulnerability and Care: Christian Reflections on the Philosophy of Medicine by Andrew Sloane
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I have recently seen at close hand the work a busy acute hospital having to deal with an older person suffering multiple challenges to well-being caused in the main by intense confusion as a result of the Alzheimer’s disease. The result was shocking and frustrating. Although,of course, a one-off situation which was intensified by my […]
HEALTHCARE, WHOLENESS & HEALING Saturday, 7th March 2015
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Diocese of Bath and Wells Diocesan Healing Group event HEALTHCARE, WHOLENESS & HEALING Saturday, 7th March 2015 Healthcare is increasingly driven by clinical outcomes, budgets, targets and political constraints. This is at the expense of whole-person care and personal well-being – for both healthcare professionals and patients alike. Could the Church […]
Moral Medicine?
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On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics Edited by M. Therese Lysaught and Joseph J. Cotva Jr. With Stephen E. Lammers and Allen Verhey Publisher: Erdmans Michigan 3rd Edition 2012, 1,162 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8028-6601-1 no price marked This book has been an important resource for those teaching and learning about bio-ethics. This […]