Death and Life in America, Second Edition: Biomedicine and Biblical Healing

by Raymond Downing, Farr Curlin (Foreword by)

Overview

Family physician Raymond Downing offers a bold critique of western medicine and sees medical care as one of the fallen "principalities and powers" 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 Westerners approach medicine. He sees suffering and healing as essentially spiritual experiences at the roots of death and life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725259706
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	04/23/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	158
File size:	609 KB

About the Author

Raymond Downing was a retired lecturer at Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret Kenya. He is the author of several books on health care in America and Africa. He passed away in January 2020.

Raymond Downing is an American medical doctor who has spent all of his professional life working in underserved communities, largely in Africa. He is the author of Suffering and Healing in America (2006) and Death and Life in America (2008).