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Phenomenological Bioethics - Medical Technologies, Human Suffering, and the Meaning of Being Alive (Paperback)
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Phenomenological Bioethics - Medical Technologies, Human Suffering, and the Meaning of Being Alive (Paperback)
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Emerging medical technologies are changing our views on human
nature and what it means to be alive, healthy, and leading a good
life. Reproductive technologies, genetic diagnosis, organ
transplantation, and psychopharmacological drugs all raise
existential questions that need to be tackled by way of
philosophical analysis. Yet questions regarding the meaning of life
have been strangely absent from medical ethics so far. This book
brings phenomenology, the main player in the continental tradition
of philosophy, to bioethics, and it does so in a comprehensive and
clear manner. Starting out by analysing illness as an embodied,
contextualized, and narrated experience, the book addresses the
role of empathy, dialogue, and interpretation in the encounter
between health-care professional and patient. Medical science and
emerging technologies are then brought to scrutiny as endeavours
that bring enormous possibilities in relieving human suffering but
also great risks in transforming our fundamental life views. How
are we to understand and deal with attempts to change the
predicaments of coming to life and the possibilities of becoming
better than well or even, eventually, surviving death? This is the
first book to bring the phenomenological tradition, including
philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Edith Stein, Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur,
Hans Jonas, and Charles Taylor, to answer such burning questions.
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