This volume explores a wide range of topics and figures in both medicine and philosophy, and brings them together in a manner that demonstrates how these two significant fields are mutually enlightening. Medicine, the author suggests, reveals deep but rarely explicit themes whose proper comprehension invites a careful phenomenological and hermeneutical explication. Certain philosophical approaches, on the other hand - specifically, Heidegger's phenomenology and Gadamer's hermeneutics - are shown to have a hitherto unrealized potential for making sense of those themes long buried within Western medicine.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer
ISBN-13
9780792367574
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95734592
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health: Steps Towards a Philosophy of Medical Practice
Author
F. Svenaeus
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Medicine, Psychology, Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
203 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
5
Item Weight
1080g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
F. Svenaeus
Series Title
International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine