As I read this book, I understand Dr Bob Cutillo, the author, has differentiated health as a possession and a gift desiring to understand and analyze the practice and profession of medicine in the light of the bible narrative. If health is a possession then like any other substantive reality health is something to have and hold such as money, cars or houses. If health is received as a gift as increasingly we see it then we receive it as a precious endowment. As the author puts forward 4 elements and looked to make sense of our basic human nature, our susceptibility to sickness, and our capacity for healing, and it is here that he turns to the Bible, to the book of origins - Genesis-to try to understand our struggles for good health and good health care in our current society. As repeatedly in the first chapter of Genesis we find the original plan where god creates "In the beginning God created...." and it is surely good from the sky to the earth, the moon to the stars, the ...