Title | Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition [electronic resource] : Medicine and Philosophy in a Dialogue / edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Evandro Agazzi |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0780-1 |
Descript | XXI, 287 p. online resource |
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 Freudโs 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 โMedical humanismโ -- 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 Chrรฉtienne -- La Signification des Miracles de Jรฉsus -- Index of namesS