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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.
It is a platitude that most people, as they say, 'work to live'
rather than 'live to work.' And in the late twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries, work weeks have expanded and the divide
between work time and personal time has significantly blurred due
to innovations in such things as electronic communications.
Concerns over the value of work in our lives, as well as with the
balance or use of time between work and leisure, confront most
people in contemporary society. Discussions over the values of
time, leisure, and work are directly related to the time-honored
question of what makes a life good. And this question is of
particular interest to philosophers, especially ethicists. In this
volume, leading scholars address a range of value considerations
related to peoples' thoughts and practices around time utilization,
leisure, and work with masterful insight. In addressing various
practical issues, these scholars demonstrate the timeless relevance
and practical import of Philosophy to human lived experience.
It is a platitude that most people, as they say, 'work to live'
rather than 'live to work.' And in the late twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries, work weeks have expanded and the divide
between work time and personal time has significantly blurred due
to innovations in such things as electronic communications.
Concerns over the value of work in our lives, as well as with the
balance or use of time between work and leisure, confront most
people in contemporary society. Discussions over the values of
time, leisure, and work are directly related to the time-honored
question of what makes a life good. And this question is of
particular interest to philosophers, especially ethicists. In this
volume, leading scholars address a range of value considerations
related to peoples' thoughts and practices around time utilization,
leisure, and work with masterful insight. In addressing various
practical issues, these scholars demonstrate the timeless relevance
and practical import of Philosophy to human lived experience.
Following the core principle of phenomenology as a return "to the
things themselves," Body Matters attends to the phenomena of bodily
afflictions and examines them from three different standpoints:
from society in general that interprets them as "sicknesses," from
the medical professions that interpret them as "diseases," and from
the patients themselves who interpret them as "illnesses." By
drawing on a crucial distinction in German phenomenology between
two senses of the body the quantifiable, material body (Korper) and
the lived-body(Leib) the authors explore the ways in which
sickness, disease, and illness are socially and historically
experienced and constructed. To make their case, they draw on
examples from a multiplicity of disciplines and cultures as well as
a number of cases from Euro-American history. The intent is to
unsettle taken-for-granted assumptions that readers may have about
body troubles. These are assumptions widely held as well by medical
and allied health professionals, in addition to many sociologists
and philosophers of health and illness. To this end, Body Matters
does not simply deconstruct prejudices of mainstream biomedicine;
it also constructively envisions more humane and artful forms of
therapy."
Ecologies of Suffering draws on the methods of Heidegger's
existential and hermeneutic phenomenology to critique the
objectifying and reductive assumptions of mainstream
psychopathology by contextualizing the lived-experience of mental
illness and illuminating its existential and qualitative aspects.
Focusing primarily on anxiety and depression, the book explores the
limitations of the dominant naturalistic-scientific account and
examines the disorders from a first-person perspective to show the
extent to which they can disrupt and modify the structures of
meaning that constitute our sense of self. The book goes on to
introduce how a hermeneutic approach to psychopathology can shed
light on the ways our historical situation shapes the way we
diagnose and classify mental disorders and provides the discursive
context through which suffers interpret and make sense of them. To
this end, Ecologies of Suffering highlights the crucial need for
clinicians to situate mental illness within the context of the
sufferer's life-world in order to properly understand the
experience. This is a valuable resource for philosophers, medical
humanists, biomedical ethicists, and mental health professionals.
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.
Following the core principle of phenomenology as a return 'to the
things themselves, ' Body Matters attends to the phenomena of
bodily afflictions and examines them from three different
standpoints: from society in general that interprets them as
'sicknesses, ' from the medical professions that interpret them as
'diseases, ' and from the patients themselves who interpret them as
'illnesses.' By drawing on a crucial distinction in German
phenomenology between two senses of the body_the quantifiable,
material body (Ksrper) and the lived-body(Leib)_the authors explore
the ways in which sickness, disease, and illness are socially and
historically experienced and constructed. To make their case, they
draw on examples from a multiplicity of disciplines and cultures as
well as a number of cases from Euro-American history. The intent is
to unsettle taken-for-granted assumptions that readers may have
about body troubles. These are assumptions widely held as well by
medical and allied health professionals, in addition to many
sociologists and philosophers of health and illness. To this end,
Body Matters does not simply deconstruct prejudices of mainstream
biomedicine; it also constructively envisions more humane and
artful forms of therapy
Notes from Underground is one of the most profound and most
unsettling works of modern literature, prefiguring Dostoevskys
later masterpieces such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The
Brothers Karamazov. The underground man has become one of the
fixtures of the contemporary worldview. No discussion of the
predicament of modern man would be complete without some allusion
to this archetypal figure both prophetic and loathsome that towers
over modern culture. / The Notes from Underground are, as
translator Boris Jakim says, A foul passageway leading into the
profoundest secrets of the human heart, an abyss where the most
loathsome thoughts are revealed. The Notes are a limbo without hope
even of hell, a Book of Job without a happy ending, a waiting for
nothing and no one (not even Godot). Nonetheless, entering into
this underground that Dostoesky claims is in us all is necessary in
order to understand not only this lowest of lows, but also the
heights that lift man out of the depths into sanctity and
exaltation. It is largely due to this masterful contrast that Notes
from Underground is considered by many critics to be not only a
pinnacle of existentialist literature, but also one of the greatest
works of modern literature altogether.
Ecologies of Suffering draws on the methods of Heidegger's
existential and hermeneutic phenomenology to critique the
objectifying and reductive assumptions of mainstream
psychopathology by contextualizing the lived-experience of mental
illness and illuminating its existential and qualitative aspects.
Focusing primarily on anxiety and depression, the book explores the
limitations of the dominant naturalistic-scientific account and
examines the disorders from a first-person perspective to show the
extent to which they can disrupt and modify the structures of
meaning that constitute our sense of self. The book goes on to
introduce how a hermeneutic approach to psychopathology can shed
light on the ways our historical situation shapes the way we
diagnose and classify mental disorders and provides the discursive
context through which suffers interpret and make sense of them. To
this end, Ecologies of Suffering highlights the crucial need for
clinicians to situate mental illness within the context of the
sufferer's life-world in order to properly understand the
experience. This is a valuable resource for philosophers, medical
humanists, biomedical ethicists, and mental health professionals.
Notes from Underground is one of the most profound and most
unsettling works of modern literature, prefiguring Dostoevskys
later masterpieces such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The
Brothers Karamazov. The underground man has become one of the
fixtures of the contemporary worldview. No discussion of the
predicament of modern man would be complete without some allusion
to this archetypal figure both prophetic and loathsome that towers
over modern culture. / The Notes from Underground are, as
translator Boris Jakim says, A foul passageway leading into the
profoundest secrets of the human heart, an abyss where the most
loathsome thoughts are revealed. The Notes are a limbo without hope
even of hell, a Book of Job without a happy ending, a waiting for
nothing and no one (not even Godot). Nonetheless, entering into
this underground that Dostoesky claims is in us all is necessary in
order to understand not only this lowest of lows, but also the
heights that lift man out of the depths into sanctity and
exaltation. It is largely due to this masterful contrast that Notes
from Underground is considered by many critics to be not only a
pinnacle of existentialist literature, but also one of the greatest
works of modern literature altogether.
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