Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition

Medicine and Philosophy in a Dialogue

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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In medicine the understanding and interpretation of the complex reality of illness currently refers either to an organismic approach that focuses on the physical or to a 'holistic' approach that takes into account the patient's human sociocultural involvement.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-10-09
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt455 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAnalecta Husserliana
Antal sidor287
Upplaga2001
FörlagSpringer
ISBN9789401038393

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Section I Interpreting illness and medecine in the context of humanlife: experience vs. objectivity.- Illness as Lived Experience and as the Object of Medicine.- The Construction of Illness: A Context Problem.- Defining Disease: Much Ado about Nothing?.- Critique of Freud’s Notion of Mental Illness.- Cancer from the Medical and Existential Points of View.- The Experience of Illness and the Meaning of Death.- Section II Newchallenges to the understanding of medicine: The ethical parameters. Toward new “Medical humanism”.- Application or Interpretation?The Role of Clinical Bioethics between Moral Principles and Concrete Situations.- Medicine as a Practice and the Ethics of Illness.- Sense or Nonsense of Illness in Ethics of the Body.- The Loss of the Sense of Illness: Euthanasia and the Right to Die.- Is it Possible to Give Sense to Illness?.- Towards a New Approach to Medical Humanism.- Section III The life-tanscending parameters in the interpretation of suffering,death and human existence: buddhism,judaism,christianity.- The Meaning of Suffering in Buddhism andChristianity.- The Christian Interpretation of Suffering.- La Maladie dans la Tradition Juive: Orthodoxie et Orthopraxie.- La Souffrance de Job.- Le Sens de la Maladie: Une Perspective Spirituelle Chrétienne.- La Signification des Miracles de Jésus.- Index of namesS.