After Virtual: Health

After Virtual: Health

Author: frontporchrepublic January 12, 2023 Duration: 1:06:16
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  Resources  Speaker bios  Conference videos  Save the date:  2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023)  Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents 

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