Although there is a rationale for the way I’ve organized the chapters of this book, I do not pretend that readers will find a clear line of argument from one chapter to the next. Chapters Two and Three are basically commentaries on the story I tell in Chapter One. In Chapter Two I argue on theological grounds against the very idea of theodicy as a theoretical enterprise. In Chapter Three I go over some of the same ground but concentrate on how medicine as an activity of service becomes distorted