Anatomy of Being

“Who better than a palliative care physician to tell us what is going on in Western medicine and culture in an age when our most contentious debates concern the doctor’s role in ending life? Philosophically profound and historically detailed, Kornu offers us a pathway out of a medical ethics captured by the logic of dissection, toward a medicine that incarnates the mystery of the divine healer.” - Brian Brock, author of Joining Creation’s Praise

“For every physician who has ever reduced a patient to a problem, or every patient who has ever felt reduced, or every theologian who has ever wondered what the Incarnation has to do with the body in a hospital bed, this book is for them. Anatomy of Being excavates the hidden history of our most habitual ways of knowing the human person and shows, with scholarly patience and pastoral urgency, that those habits are not inevitable.” - Ashley Moyse, author of Resourcing Hope for Ageing and Dying in a Broken World

“Anatomy of Being is a searching, careful journey through the ideas and histories that have made us see bodies as objects to be taken apart. This book challenges all of us in healthcare to reckon with how modes of knowing become modes of harm and persuasively offers the logic of incarnation as a humane corrective to the totalizing tendencies of modern medicine.” - Devan Stahl, author of Disability’s Challenge to Theology

Kimbell Kornu is Provost’s Professor of Bioethics, Theology, and Christian Formation at Belmont University and is a palliative care physician.

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