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

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

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Series: Analecta Husserliana, Book 72

PhilosophyMedical Reference

ISBN10: 0792369831
ISBN13: 9780792369837
Publisher: Springer
Published: Sep 30 2001
Pages: 287
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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'.

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