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Jan 12, 2023 1 hr 6 min

After Virtual: Health

from The Brass Spittoon Hosted by frontporchrepublic

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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