Page |142 communities enfolded the care of the taken for granted precisely because of its sick into a communal life of liturgy and dominance, so the influence of religious prayer. This is not to say that the ideas on medical practice is often substantively irreligious lack proper invisible in those areas where motivation to practice medicine. It is to commitments are shared in common say that an animating vision for among different religions and other medicine as a good and worthy activity moral traditions. For example, we seems to require moral concepts that generally take it for granted that science alone does not provide. mending injuries, treating infections, and How should medical science be removing diseased organs are good d 9 things to do. That is because the moral eployed? ‘ : commitments that undergird these Medicine is not only animated by practices are shared by virtually all something like a religious vision; it also moral communities, religious or requires a thick moral framework for its otherwise. Moral commitments that are ongoing direction. To know how best to shared by all may not seem ‘moral’ at care for patients, we need to know all. Yet even the idea of sickness implies something about what human flourishing a norm of and concern for health that are entails and how medicine can contribute not fully derivable from empirical to it. Medical science is less helpful here science. than one might hope. . ms & P The influence of religion on Science facilitates the sort of medical practice becomes more visible religious humanism that Browning where the commitments of particular encourages, because it helps us better traditions diverge from one another or understand the empirical world and where they diverge from the values of therefore helps all moral communities the dominant culture. For example, refine their efforts to bring about human religious measures have been found flourishing. Science elucidates a range of consistently to strongly predict techn