When Dr. Nolen finds in himself the courage to confront these limitations with the same critical intelligence he has brought to the limitations of faith healing, when he analyzes modern surgical procedures and techniques with the same demystifying urge he applied so rigorously in the huts of the Philippines, he will have written the book (or books) he was borne to write.
While the newer concept of global health security could confront these limitations, its embrace of a 'weakest link' argument still privileges risks to others and not to those who may be the cauldrons of that risk.
We are indebted to those who have confronted these limitations and destroyed them, who acknowledged societal expectations and exceeded them.
"Ten years ago, when I was still a photojournalist," he explained, "I was beginning to confront the limitations of journalism.
The couple planted baby ginger for the first time this season to supplement their more common crops, including tomatoes, greens and carrots, and they've had to confront the limitations of central Virginia as a hub for ginger production.
I think that a child does not feel the sublime because a child need not, perhaps cannot, confront the limitations of his or her language – language, for a child, is already miraculous, supple, generous in its association, tragic, hilarious, disproportionate and huge.
In his memoir "Flying Colors: The Story of a Remarkable Group of Artists and the Transcendent Power of Art" (Beacon, $25) Tim Lefens and his students, who use wheelchairs, confront the limitations of the physical world with the what he calls the "language of abstraction".
In Spectrum for an Untouchable (GusGus Press-Bedazzled Ink Publishing), Israeli contemporary artist and poet Meital Yaniv uses language to confront the limitations of language.
She has written three tales, fabulous in nature, of our housebroken estate, stories in which ordinary people confront the limitations of passion and the adaptations of love.
"Go to the places where you don't like yourself... Go to your cellulite and see how you really feel when you see it in the mirror!" 3. Confront the limitations others placed on you.
If a profound grief reaction to divorce or children leaving home or the loss of a pregnancy, or unemployment, or retirement, or having to confront the limitations of our children, or aging, or the loss of health is something I share with my fellow beings, I am less alone.
