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