Death and Life in America, Second Edition

Family physician Raymond Downing offers a bold critique of western medicine and sees medical care as one of the fallen "e;principalities and powers"e; in need of redemption. But Downing's hope lies beyond biomedicine--in biblical healing, especially the healing miracles of Jesus. In conversation with the Bible, Ivan Illich, William Stringfellow, Susan Sontag, and others, Downing revisits how Weste...