Despite medicine's remarkable advances, has it actually taken a wrong turn and lost something

pretty important?

What is the dominant worldview of medicine and health care today, and how has that affected

both patients and health care providers?

And what are the virtues that should govern health care to get it back on track?

We'll answer these questions and a whole lot more

with our guest, Dr. Brent Waters, Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the Stead Center for Ethics

and Values at Garrett Evangelical Seminary. Brent will be a plenary speaker at the National Conference

of the Center for BioAlect and Human Dignity coming up in a few weeks. I'm your host, Scott Ray,

and this is Think Biblically from

Talba School of Theology at Biola University. Brent, welcome. Really glad to have you with us

looking so forward to this conversation. Thank you for having me. Yeah. You say in your work that

healthcare in the last 20 or 30 years has made incredible advances, but nevertheless has taken a

wrong turn. What do you mean by that and how so? Well, I think it's taken a wrong turn in that it's

created false expectations of what it can really deliver. And what I mean by that is that there's an implicit promise that most diseases, if not now,

will eventually be preventable, that we won't have to deal with prolonged illness,

that almost anything can be corrected.

So that in a sense, what they're really saying is that the human body is not an object of care as it has traditionally been within medical care, but is now a problem to be solved.

And once we can solve that problem, then we'll have better lives.

Personally, I think what that really is doing is launching a very naive war against finitude and

mortality. And we were created by God to be finite and moral creatures. Now, it doesn't mean

medicine shouldn't do what it can to relieve suffering, to cure illnesses. But it means ultimately

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