The penultimate session from the FPR conference After Virtual: The Art of Recovering Lost Goods addresses health. Philosopher Adam Smith from the University of Dubuque and medical doctor Brian Volck, author of Attending Others: A Doctor’s Education in Bodies and Words, take on the medical/industrial complex (with assists from Alasdair MacIntyre and Wendell Berry).
Speakers: Adam Smith and Brian Volck
Highlights
2:15 Adam Smith—Medicine After Virtue
3:15 Medicine in the New Dark Ages
5:00 Out of practice
11:30 The medicalization of everything
16:00 Infected with emotivism
20:00 Curing the disease of freedom in 1851
26:00 De-medicalizing birth, death, and more
29:00 Brian Volck — Hospitality, Responsibility, and Presence: Practicing Medicine as if Bodies Actually Mattered
31:00 Bad metaphors and good definitions
33:00 The trouble with trolleys and telemedicine
41:00 Patients in the flesh
45:00 Paleo-Benedictine hospitality
48:15 Stewarding stethoscopes
51:30 Q & A
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Save the date: 2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023)
Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents
