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Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness
Contributor(s): Aho, Kevin (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1786604833     ISBN-13: 9781786604835
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
OUR PRICE: $53.55  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology
- Philosophy | Movements - Existentialism
- Medical
Dewey: 610.1
LCCN: 2017059631
Series: New Heidegger Research
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.96 lbs) 294 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
Review Citations: Choice 12/01/2018
 
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Publisher Description:
Existential Medicine explores the recent impact that the philosophies of existentialism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics have had on the health care professions. A growing body of scholarship drawing primarily on the work of Martin Heidegger and other influential twentieth-century figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Hans-Georg Gadamer has shaped contemporary research in the fields of bioethics, narrative medicine, gerontology, enhancement medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy, and palliative care, among others. By regarding the human body as a decontextualized object, the prevailing paradigm of medical science often overlooks the body as it is lived. As a result, it fails to critically engage the experience of illness and the core questions of 'what it means' and 'what it feels like' to be ill. With work from emerging and renowned scholars in the field, this collection aims to shed light on these issues and the crucial need for clinicians to situate the experience of illness within the context of a patient's life-world. To this end, Existential Medicine offers a valuable resource for philosophers and medical humanists as well as health care practitioners.

Contributor Bio(s): Aho, Kevin: - Kevin Aho is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Communication and Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is the author of Existentialism: An Introduction (Polity, 2014), Heidegger's Neglect of the Body (SUNY Press, 2009), and co-author of Body Matters: A Phenomenology of Sickness, Illness, and Disease (Lexington Books, 2008).
 
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