{"product_id":"crazy-medicine-flesh-and-bill-johns-9798272802552","title":"Crazy Medicine - Flesh and Faith: The Divine Body and the Medicine of Belief","description":"In every age, humanity has turned to medicine to explain what it fears most: the fragility of life and the meaning of suffering. \u003ci\u003eCrazy Medicine: Flesh and Faith \u003c\/i\u003etraces the long and often perilous journey of healing-from temples and plague wards to laboratories and intensive care units-revealing that the language of science never fully replaced the language of the soul. In the hands of Bill Johns, the history of medicine becomes an inquiry into belief itself: why we seek redemption through the body, and why every cure carries the shadow of control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving from ancient Greece to modern biotechnology, \u003ci\u003eCrazy Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the shared anatomy of miracle and method. The Hippocratic physician, the medieval monk, the Renaissance anatomist, and the modern clinician each confront the same question in different vocabularies: what is the body, and what does it mean to heal it? Johns explores the theological roots of care, the moral aftermath of experimentation, and the quiet continuity between the healer's art and the priest's prayer. Through scenes of wonder and catastrophe-radium tonics, electric faith healers, battlefield surgeons, and laboratory pioneers-he reveals how the boundaries between medicine and religion have never truly closed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt its heart, \u003ci\u003eCrazy Medicine \u003c\/i\u003eis a meditation on attention-the act that turns treatment into meaning. Drawing from philosophy, literature, and contemporary science, Johns argues that the art of healing depends not on mastery but on witness. From Simone Weil's definition of attention as \"the rarest and purest form of generosity\" to modern neuroscience's rediscovery of empathy's biological power, the book shows how the human need for coherence binds flesh and faith together across centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in a clear, narrative style that blends cultural history with moral reflection, \u003ci\u003eCrazy Medicine \u003c\/i\u003eis both elegy and revelation. It asks what happens when progress forgets compassion, and what remains when medicine has done all it can. The answer, Johns suggests, lies in the gesture that has never changed: one person staying with another, until the end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Susan Sontag, and Anne Fadiman, this book offers a profound reexamination of the body as the final frontier of meaning-where science meets faith, and care becomes the last surviving ritual of hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Johns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798272802552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d","brand":"Bill Johns","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997226774783,"sku":"9798272802552","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crazy-medicine-flesh-and-bill-johns-9798272802552","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}