Commentary Is modern medicine stripping us of our humanity? Without its amazing technical advances some of us would not be alive to discuss the question. But in its materialist, spiritually impoverished understanding of the human being, as ethicist Charles Camosy puts it in his new book, “Losing Our Dignity,” medicine is at risk of reducing itself to a kind of organic plumbing and carpentry. Modern secularism at the same time reduces us as persons to our autonomy and capacity to make choices. It thereby excludes whole classes of human beings who lack the will, power, or cognitive ability to make conscious choices. Do physicians and health systems with this bias regard “unwanted” prenatal children, those with severe brain damage or Down syndrome, neurodegenerative disease, or late-stage dementia as less than human and unworthy of their ministrations? Are we losing our dignity as secularized medicine undermines our fundamental human equality? Secularizing …