Collin’s Reviews > This Is the Door: The Body, Pain, and Faith – Moving Essays on Chronic Illness, Recovery and Healing > Status Update

“Before modern medicine began to develop in the eighteenth century, death was mysterious, ordained by the gods, a force that resided outside the human body. In those times, you felt pain, and it got worse and worse until you died, never knowing the cause. With modern medicine, death relocated to inside our bodies.” seems like a massive over-generalization but what do i know