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Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 120
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This volume addresses some of the most prominent questions in
contemporary bioethics and philosophy of medicine: 'liberal'
eugenics, enhancement, the normal and the pathological, the
classification of mental illness, the relation between genetics,
disease and the political sphere, the experience of illness and
disability, and the sense of the subject of bioethical inquiry
itself. All of these issues are addressed from a "continental"
perspective, drawing on a rich tradition of inquiry into these
questions in the fields of phenomenology, philosophical
hermeneutics, French epistemology, critical theory and
post-structuralism. At the same time, the contributions engage with
the Anglo-American debate, resulting in a fruitful and constructive
conversation that not only shows the depth and breadth of
continental perspectives in bioethics and medicine, but also opens
new avenues of discussion and exploration. For decades European
philosophers have offered important insights into the relation
between the practices of medicine, the concept of illness, and
society more broadly understood. These interventions have generally
striven to be both historically nuanced and accessible to
non-experts. From Georges Canguilhem's seminal The Normal and the
Pathological, Michel Foucault's lectures on madness, sexuality, and
biopolitics, Hans Jonas's deeply thoughtful essays on the right to
die, life extension, and ethics in a technological age, Hans-Georg
Gadamer's lectures on The Enigma of Health, and more recently
Jurgen Habermas's carefully nuanced interventions on the question
of liberal eugenics, these thinkers have sought to engage the wider
public as much as their fellow philosophers on questions of
paramount importance to current bioethical and social-political
debate. The essays contained here continue this tradition of
engagement and accessibility. In the best practices of European
philosophy, the contributions in this volume aim to engage with and
stimulate a broad spectrum of readers, not just experts. In doing
so the volume offers a showcase of the richness and rigor of
continental perspectives on medicine and society.
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