Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition Medicine and Philosophy in a Dialogue
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. Yet as the papers of thi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2001, 2001
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2001 |
| Series: | Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research
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Table of Contents:
- 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.