Redeeming Marketplace Medicine: A Theology of Health Care

by Evans, Abigail Rian

• ISBN13: 9781556358418
• ISBN10: 1556358415
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

Asserting what most Americans already suspect -- that corporate-based managed care places profits over patient care -- theologian Abigail Rian Evans points out that medical experts have reduced health care to medical treatment under arrangements with health insurance plans and HMOs. Her reasoned, practical alternative engages Christian theology, proposing a much broader concept of health care. An important contribution to a critical discussion.

Author Biography

Abigail Rian Evans is Charlotte W. Newcombe Professor of Practical Theology and Academic Coordinator of Field Education at Princeton Theological Seminary

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: A New Vision of Health Redeems Marketplace Medicine	p. 1
Marketplace Medical Care
Health Care in Crisis	p. 7
The Focus on Medical Care	p. 21
Problems in the Medical Model	p. 30
Health as More Than Medicine and Money	p. 58
Redeeming Health and Health Care
Reenvisioning Health and Sickness	p. 67
Healing as Moving toward Wholeness	p. 84
The Relationship between Faith and Healing	p. 100
Healers as Coadventurers for Health
The Patient as the Central Healer	p. 119
The Pastor, Physician, and Nurse as Healers	p. 132
The Collaboration of Healers	p. 152
Conclusion: Called to Be Agents of Healing	p. 165
Notes	p. 171
Index	p. 187
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