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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…
John Murdock
John Murdock
January 12, 2023

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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John Murdock

John Murdock

John Murdock is an attorney and globetrotting localist who worked for over a decade in Washington, D.C.; left the Capital Beltway to write from a family farmhouse deep in the heart of the Lone Star state; taught law in South Korea; and then rode the housing waves of Boise. In 2023, John left the crisp dry air of Idaho and returned to the stifling humidity of his native east Texas. His writing is catalogued at johnmurdock.org.