Health is Membership: 25 Years Later
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -Just over 25 years ago in a speech in Louisville, Kentucky, farmer, poet, critic, and theorist Wendell Berry sought to restore love, healing, wholeness, and health to the lexicon of modern American health care. It is perhaps less remarkable that he did this than that the words themselves had been lost to health care systems at all and replaced with words like efficiency, value, specialization-- words that have more to do with business management than with the tasks of healing and care to which health systems are dedicated. Our task in this series is to probe and understand the relevance of Berry’s thinking for health, healing, and healthcare 25 years on from this speech. As we face an America that spends increasing sums on health care with poorer outcomes, Berry’s thinking might just have something to say that can reorient us and help us all flourish.
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Mary Berry
July 03, 2020 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43 MBThe Berry Center Executive Director Mary Berry and her brother, Den Berry, were raised by their parents, Wendell and Tanya Berry, at Lanes Landing Farm in Henry County, Kentucky from the time she was six years old. She attended Henry County public schools and graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1981. She farmed for a living in Henry County starting out in dairy farming, growing Burley tobacco, and later diversifying to organic vegetables, pastured poultry and grass fed beef...
Warren Kinghorn
June 11, 2020 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBWarren Kinghorn is a psychiatrist whose work centers on the role of religious communities in caring for persons with mental health problems and on ways in which Christians engage practices of modern health care. Jointly appointed within Duke Divinity School and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Duke University Medical Center, he is co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative and is a staff psychiatrist at the Durham VA Medical Center. He has w...
Matt Finn
April 30, 2020 21:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MBMatt is passionate about how the built environment influences human health. As a social entrepreneur and architect, Finn founded Cognitive Design in 2016 - a consulting and design firm that works with a network of people from outside the design profession, including clinical psychologists, social workers, and healthcare practitioners, to help inform the design process. Finn grew up in Atlanta (proof that natives exist) where he works and resides with his wife, Stephanie, and their ...
Grace Hackney
April 11, 2020 10:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBRev. Grace G. Hackney is an elder in the United Methodist Church and the founding director of Life Around the Table. She tends 12 acres in Efland, NC with her husband Tony and a smattering of animals, bolstered by visits from her two grown children. Source: https://lifearoundthetable.org/
George Scialabba
March 18, 2020 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBGeorge Scialabba grew up in East Boston, in the shadow of Logan Airport. He distinguished himself as an altar boy at Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish and a third-baseman for the Mount Carmel Mohawks. He graduated Harvard College in 1969 and spent a year in graduate school at Columbia (European intellectual history), dropping out in 1970, never to return. Through most of the 1970s he meandered around the counterculture, knowing that something was happening there but never knowing what...
Norman Wirzba
March 04, 2020 11:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBNorman Wirzba pursues research and teaching interests at the intersections of theology, philosophy, ecology, and agrarian and environmental studies. He lectures frequently in Canada, the United States, and Europe. In particular, his research is centered on a recovery of the doctrine of creation and a restatement of humanity in terms of its creaturely life. He is currently the director of a multi-year, Henry Luce-Foundation-funded projected entitled “Facing the Anthropocene.” In this...
Trailer: Health is Membership
February 23, 2020 18:17 - 2 minutes - 2 MB"Health is Membership" can be read HERE.