ABOUT BOOK

‘No one can serve two masters . . . You cannot serve God and Mammon.’ Jesus’ famous words, cited to different purposes by Miran Epstein and Adrian Walsh in ~this volume, provide a starting point for this chapter’s constructive argument and ~critical conversation with the chapters in this middle part. Epstein deploys Jesus’ ~words to deny the possibility of any constructive reconciliation between capitalism ~and healthcare, contrasting Jesus’ saying with the infamous words of Christian conquistadores ~and with what he claims is the inherently corrupting, master-slave ethic ~of the Deuteronomic covenant. By contrast, Walsh cites Jesus to explain Judeo- ~Christian cultural suspicions about money’s place in healthcare before delineating ~the potentially, though not necessarily, corrosive effects of marketisation