{"product_id":"9781636081717","title":"Plough Quarterly No. 44 - Why Be Healthy?","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn an age of health care and wellness industries\u003c\/b\u003e and near-religious pursuit of fitness and self-optimization, what does “health” mean for the chronically ill? For people with disabilities or mental health challenges or neurodiversity? For the aging and dying? This issue asks what it means to live well despite the limitations and frailties of our bodies, and what, beyond the scope of medicine, is needed for our flourishing. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn this theme: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aberdeen Livingstone learns when to battle, and when to accept, chronic illness.\u003cbr\u003e Malcolm Guite defends the responsible use of pipe and pint.\u003cbr\u003e David Zahl calls out the wellness industry’s false promise of optimization.\u003cbr\u003e Abraham Nussbaum learns the limits of psychotherapy from his first patient.\u003cbr\u003e Cristiano Dennani photographs survivors of the Bhopal chemical spill in India.\u003cbr\u003e Heather M. Surls visits a tuberculosis hospital in Mafraq, Jordan.\u003cbr\u003e Brewer Eberly considers direct primary care, an attempt to reset the doctor-patient relationship.\u003cbr\u003e Devan Stahl considers what the wounds of the resurrected Christ mean for people with disabled bodies.\u003cbr\u003e Sam Tomlin wishes church and school weren’t such hurdles for children with autism.\u003cbr\u003e James Mumford finds the twelve steps of AA work when other approaches to addiction fail.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOther articles in this issue: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jessica T. Miskelly, monitoring ocean currents on an icebreaker off Antarctica, feels the planet breathe.\u003cbr\u003e Kelsey Osgood visits a Jewish-Christian-Muslim interfaith center after October 7.\u003cbr\u003e Terence Sweeney profiles a repentant slaveholder, Bartolomé de las Casas.\u003cbr\u003e Plus: new poems by A. E. Stallings, short fiction by Narine Abgaryan, book reviews, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlough Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003efeatures stories,\u003c\/b\u003e ideas, and culture for people eager to apply their faith to the challenges we face. Each issue includes in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plough Publishing House, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42459483701309,"sku":"9781636081717","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781636081717_p0.jpg?v=1771585851","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781636081717","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}