This book was triggered when, as a novice medical student in Oxford, I first read Dr Paul Tournier’s Doctor’s Casebook in the Light of the Bible. At that time I was searching for a bridge between the basic sciences and the Christian faith tradition. Much later, at a meeting of the International Medicine of the Person Group in Prague, 1993, I was intrigued by the memories and wholesome relationships of these continental doctors and their families. The ‘medicine of the person’ as experienced on that occasion was indeed an idea larger than that small cohesive group of fellow travellers who were well aware of the risks of a health.
