Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness Within the Human Condition: Medicine and Philosophy in a Dialogue - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0792369831 ISBN 13 : 9780792369837

Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

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 this collection show, the suffering human person refers ultimately to his/her existential sphere. Hence, praxis is supplemented by still other perspectives for valuation and interpretation: ethical, spiritual, and religious.
Can medicine ignore these considerations or push them to the side as being subjective and arbitrary? Phenomenology/philosophy-of-life recognizes all of the above approaches to be essential facets of the Human Condition (Tymieniecka). This approach holds that all the facets of the Human Condition have equal objectivity and legitimacy. It completes the accepted medical outlook and points the way toward a new `medical humanism'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0792369831
• ISBN 13: 9780792369837
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 308
• Éditeur: Tymieniecka Anna-Teresa, Agazzi E.
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