Preamble The God in the Machine By Lewis H. Lapham Americans ask of medicine more than medicine can deliver—not only the cure for death, but also the gift of riches. More
Essay Great Expectations By Noga Arikha Medicine was once a humanistic endeavor, an art as well as a science. Today both doctors and patients fail to see that we are more than just our bodies. More
Voices In Time c. 1916 | Vienna Making a Diagnosis Sigmund Freud provides an introduction to psychoanalysis. More
Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit. —William Saroyan, 1943