Page |144 instances of disease; they treat patients regardless of one’s social status, one’s as less than the human persons they are. biological fitness or one’s reproductive Physicians, it would seem, are capacity. Epley notes that we are better subject to a particular form of the more able to pay attention to what another 1s general psychological challenge of thinking or feeling men we he paying attention to other minds. Like all mo tvaten fo de 50. Chustianity seeks tg humans, physicians easily ignore the stimulate sucht DIL aueD by . mnindtalaess of other. Tats eartere encouraging Christians to meditate on Epley reminds us, “because mindful the fact that Jesus comes to us in those 2 . . 4 agents become moral agents worthy of wre are sick and omenwise suffer’. care and compassion.” As such, patients euler HM he K “aah ates are who are seen as mindful “evoke empathy TENG! GLOUE, JS RSwIStOS Tanner and concern for well-being, whereas details m Het chapter, God 's always agents without mindful experience can with us. This central theological claim, be treated simply as mindless objects.” when remembered in Song, Prayer, There are obstacles to recognizing the liturgy, reading ot ecripiites ane tire mindfulness of patients. Illness makes a ve provid os a ae la om ot patient different, or deviant, from human wnat Psyc SOE ca min norms, and we tend to pay less attention surveillance”—our actions become more to the minds of those who are different Poses (even altruistic) when we are from ourselves. In addition aware of being observed by others. All “Considering other minds requires some of thuse PEAPLICES depend on aut-extend aitenianal attert Ii dace nel come the capacities of the social brain. They automatically.” Physicians learn to go ae also, fom the vane , t through the technical motions of caring Tistianity, ways In W ie one ted for the sick until those motions become ihn ced grace, the unmerite ‘automatic’—that is the mark of a skilled EP BP ees and effective c