To be embodied is to be vulnerable. Vulnerability strikes us as negative and with reason, rooted as it is in the word “wound.” But the ability to be wounded is also the capacity to be affected—moved—by another. To be vulnerable is to be in need of help, in attaining something, in growing up, or just in being. “I am wounded with love,” says the Bride of her Bridegroom. Our bodies open us to the world and to God, even though that openness also makes us susceptible to a host of wounds in the more obvious, negative, sense. This issue takes up the full range of that vulnerability in man.
Re-Source: Classic Texts
Articles
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Reverence for the Body: A Witness by Sean Fieler
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The Starved Body: Anorexia and the Fracture Within the Self by Angela Franks
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Prostituted People are the Walking Dead: So Why Does Amnesty International Advocate for the Sex Industry? by Eleanor K. Gaetan
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Technocracy and the Body by Michael Hanby
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Gender: Law's Allergic Reaction to the Body by Daniel Moody
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Deconstructing Dignity by Eradicating Shame: The Pernicious Heritage of Alfred Kinsey by Judith Reisman and Mary McAlister
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The Second Year of Human Pregnancy: *In the Womb of the Family* by Susan Waldstein
Witness
Book Reviews
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Last Days: Caring for the Terminally Ill by David Albert Jones
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Nicholas Tonti-Filippini, About Bioethics: Volume 2—Caring for People who are Sick or Dying
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Trauma and the Body by Léonie Caldecott
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Peter Levine, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
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Bessel Van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
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Death and Dying in the Age of Autonomy by Lesley Rice
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Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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