2 G.K. Chesterton, More Quotable Chesterton (San Francisco, Ignatius Press, 1988), p. 86.
3 John Frame, Medical Ethics (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1988), pp. 47-48.
4 R.L. Dabney, Discussions Secular (Harrisonburg, VA: Sprinkle, 1979 [1892]), p. 53. The quotation is from an essay entitled "The Crimes of Philanthropy."
5 Ibid. pp. 63, 70.
6 J. Gresham Machen, The Christian Faith in the Modern World (New York: Macmillan Co., 1936), p. 10.
7 John Newton, The Works of John Newton, Vol. 1 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, [1820] 1985), pp. 134-135.
8 Walter Williams, "Is it Time to Prepare to Secede From the Union?" Syndicated Column, Oct. 27, 1993.
9 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, "The Four-Step Health Care Solution," The Free Market, Vol. 11, No. 4, April 1993.
10 Marvin Olasky, The Tragedy of American Compassion (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1992) pp. 233, 232.
11 Murray Rothbard, "The Health Plan's Devilish Principles," The Free Market, Vol. 11, No. 12, December 1993.
12 Franklin E. Payne, Jr., Biblical Healing for Modern Medicine (Augusta, GA: Covenant Books, 1993), p. 64.
13 Doug Bandow, Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1988), p. 205.
14 Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1983) p. 325.
2 See discussions in such places as Ralph Major, History of Medicine, Vol. 1 (Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas Publ., 1954); Gerhard Venimer, Five Thousand Years of Medicine (New York: Taplinger Publ., 1972); Mc Guire Gibson, The Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East (Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1991); Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq (London: Penguin Books, 1992); Leo Oppenheim, Ancient Mesopotamia (Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press, 1965); R.J. Rushdoony, The One and the Many (Fairfax, VA: Thoburn Press, 1978); Morris Jastrow, Aspects of the Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria (New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1971). For the Babylonian parallel, I am indebted to Harold O.J. Brown who raised it in a lecture at a recent health care conference.
1 R.L. Dabney, Discussions Secular (Harrisonburg, VA: Sprinkle Publ. , 1979 [1892]), p. 496.
2 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (New York: Dover Publ., 1958), p. 24.
3 Ibid., p. 550.
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* This summary is indebted to Terree Wasley, What Has Government Done to Our Health Care? (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1992). Helpful discussions are also available in John Goodman and Gerald Musgrave, Patient Power (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1992); Joseph Bast, Why We Spend Too Much on Health Care (Chicago, IL: The Heartland Institute, 1993); assorted essays from The Free Market, Ludvig von Mises Institute (205-844-2500) and The Freeman, Foundation for Economic Education (914-591-7230).
* Prior to the third century, some parts of the early church encouraged sexual self-discipline through companionship with subintroductae, an "office" for Christian women who would slumber with male companions without intercourse. The experiment in discipline was soon forbidden first by the Synod of Elvira (305) and then the Council of Nicaea (325) due to scandal. See comments on the subintroductae in Charles Williams, Descent of the Dove (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publ. Co., 1939 [1979]) and the interpretive paraphrase of I Corinthians 7:36 by the New English Bible.
