Growing Our Moral Imagination: Approaching Health Care with a New Faith-Based Vision

A bold and compassionate vision of what health care can become if we allow it to be shaped by our moral imagination. In a country where more than one in five hospital beds belong to religious institutions, amid skyrocketing costs, deepening inequities, and burnout across the health care system, Growing Our Moral Imagination challenges us to see beyond policies and procedures to the stories and values that shape how we care for one another. Michael Rozier, a scholar of public health and health care services and a Jesuit priest, turns to the Gospels to explore how foundational stories of healing might guide our response to today's most pressing health challenges.But rather than retell familiar miracles, he instead examines where social stigma, isolation, injustice, and spiritual suffering intersect with physical care.How do we make sense of illness for which there is no cure?How do we respond to needs that medicine alone cannot meet?Through nine compelling contemporary stories inspired b