Mary Berry
The Berry Center Executive Director Mary Berry and her brother, Den Berry, were raised by their parents, Wendell and Tanya Berry, at Lanes Landing Far...
Health is Membership: 25 Years Later
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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.
Mary Berry
The Berry Center Executive Director Mary Berry and her brother, Den Berry, were raised by their parents, Wendell and Tanya Berry, at Lanes Landing Far...
Warren Kinghorn
Warren Kinghorn is a psychiatrist whose work centers on the role of religious communities in caring for persons with mental health problems and on way...
Warren Kinghorn
Warren Kinghorn is a psychiatrist whose work centers on the role of religious communities in caring for persons with mental health problems and on way...
Matt Finn
Matt is passionate about how the built environment influences human health. As a social entrepreneur and architect, Finn founded Cognitive Design in 2...
Matt Finn
Matt is passionate about how the built environment influences human health. As a social entrepreneur and architect, Finn founded Cognitive Design in 2...
Grace Hackney
Rev. 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 ...
Grace Hackney
Rev. 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 ...
George Scialabba
George 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 a...
George Scialabba
George 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 a...