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What counts as health or ill health? How do we deal with the
fallibility of our own bodies? Should illness and disease be
considered simply in biological terms, or should considerations of
its emotional impact dictate our treatment of it? Our understanding
of health and illness had become increasingly more complex in the
modern world, as we are able to use medicine not only to fight
disease but to control other aspects of our bodies, whether mood,
blood pressure, or cholesterol. This collection of essays
foregrounds the concepts of health and illness and patient
experience within the philosophy of medicine, reflecting on the
relationship between the ill person and society. Mental illness is
considered alongside physical disease, and the important
ramifications of society's differentiation between the two are
brought to light. Health, Illness and Disease is a significant
contribution to shaping the parameters of the evolving field of
philosophy of medicine and will be of interest to medical
practitioners and policy-makers as well as philosophers of science
and ethicists.
What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label,
or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social,
and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? Can
there be well-being within illness? In this remarkable and
thought-provoking book, Havi Carel explores these questions by
weaving together the personal story of her own illness with
insights and reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher.
Carel's fresh approach to illness raises some uncomfortable
questions about how we all - whether healthcare professionals or
not - view the ill, challenging us to become more thoughtful.
Illness unravels the tension between the universality of illness
and its intensely private, often lonely, nature. It offers a new
way of looking at a matter that affects every one of us. Revised
and updated throughout, the third edition of this groundbreaking
volume includes a new chapter on organ transplantation. Illness:
The Cry of the Flesh will prove essential reading to those studying
philosophy, medical ethics, and medical anthropology, as well as
those in the healthcare and medical professions. It will also be of
interest to individuals who live with illness, and their friends
and families.
What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label,
or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social,
and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? Can
there be well-being within illness? In this remarkable and
thought-provoking book, Havi Carel explores these questions by
weaving together the personal story of her own illness with
insights and reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher.
Carel's fresh approach to illness raises some uncomfortable
questions about how we all - whether healthcare professionals or
not - view the ill, challenging us to become more thoughtful.
Illness unravels the tension between the universality of illness
and its intensely private, often lonely, nature. It offers a new
way of looking at a matter that affects every one of us. Revised
and updated throughout, the third edition of this groundbreaking
volume includes a new chapter on organ transplantation. Illness:
The Cry of the Flesh will prove essential reading to those studying
philosophy, medical ethics, and medical anthropology, as well as
those in the healthcare and medical professions. It will also be of
interest to individuals who live with illness, and their friends
and families.
What is the relationship between phenomenology and naturalism? Are
they mutually exclusive or is a rapprochement possible between
their approaches to consciousness and the natural world? Can
phenomenology be naturalised and ought it to be? Or is naturalism
fundamentally unable to accommodate phenomenological insights? How
can phenomenological method be used within a naturalistic research
programme? This cutting-edge collection of original essays contains
brilliant contributions from leading phenomenologists across the
world. The collection presents a wide range of fascinating and
carefully argued answers to these questions.
This book sets out to restore the concept of healing to its place
within and beyond pain medicine, in chapters authored by keynote
speakers to the British Pain Society's Philosophy and Ethics
Special Interest Group. Exploring psychological, spiritual and
creative approaches, contributors reflect on therapeutic avenues
ranging from the deliberate use of the placebo response and the
importance of a caring relationship between patient and
practitioner, to the use of knitting as a therapeutic tool.
Barriers to the flow of healing such as practitioners' careless use
of language and cultural attitudes are identified and contrasted
with the need to understand the first-person perspectives of people
who are suffering. This book will provide hope and inspiration both
to people who have become disillusioned with conventional medical
approaches to the relief of their pain, and to health professionals
sadly aware of the frequent inadequacy of their efforts to help
them.
A new moral theory from an Israeli philosopher and activist
emphasizing the existential and political nature of evil. What
remains of moral judgment when truth itself is mistrusted, when the
validity of every belief system depends on its context, when power
and knowledge are inextricably entangled? Is a viable moral theory
still possible in the wake of the postmodern criticism of modern
philosophyThe Order of Evils responds directly to these questions
and dilemmas with one simple and brilliant change of focus. Rather
than concentrating on the age-old themes of justice and freedom,
Adi Ophir offers a moral theory that emphasizes the existential and
political nature of evil. Ophir's main contention is that evil is
neither a diabolical element residing in the hearts of men nor a
meaningless absence of the good. Rather, it is the socially
structured order of "superfluous evils." Evils, like pain,
suffering, loss, and humiliation, are superfluous when they could
have been-but were not-prevented. Through close analysis of seminal
works by modern and postmodern philosophers-from Rousseau, Kant,
Marx, Sartre, and Arendt to Foucault, Levinas, Derrida, and
Lyotard-Ophir forges a new perspective for thinking about what it
means to be a moral being: to be moral, he argues, is to care for
others, and to be committed to preventing, at all costs, their
suffering and distress. A theoretically sophisticated work, The
Order of Evils also bears the traces of Ophir's own political and
personal experiences as an Israeli philosopher and activist. Two
major events in recent Jewish history have profoundly influenced
his thinking: the Holocaust and the prolonged Israeli domination of
Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Ophir does not compare
the two events. Instead, he introduces a typology of disasters that
allows them to be located within the wide spectrum of humanly
generated calamities whose specificity and general patterns emerge
clearly and distinctly as what they are and are not.
What do we mean when we talk about philosophy today? How does
philosophy relate to science, to politics, to literature? What
methods does the modern philosopher use, and how does philosophy
progress? Does philosophy differ from place to place? What can
philosophy do for us? And what can it not do? This book, with
contributions from such exciting and influential contemporary
philosophers as Simon Blackburn, Michael Friedman, Simon Critchley
and Manuel DeLanda, offers us a fascinating picture of the
character and methods of philosophy; its possibilities and its
limitations. And of course, it is itself a piece of philosophy in
action, not merely offering us answers but also prompting us to ask
further questions and to philosophise for ourselves.>
What do we mean when we talk about philosophy today? How does
philosophy relate to science, to politics, to literature? What
methods does the modern philosopher use, and how does philosophy
progress? Does philosophy differ from place to place? What can
philosophy do for us? And what can it not do? This book, with
contributions from such exciting and influential contemporary
philosophers as Simon Blackburn, Michael Friedman, Simon Critchley
and Manuel DeLanda, offers us a fascinating picture of the
character and methods of philosophy; its possibilities and its
limitations. And of course, it is itself a piece of philosophy in
action, not merely offering us answers but also prompting us to ask
further questions and to philosophise for ourselves.>
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