Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition

Medicine and Philosophy in a Dialogue

  • Book
  • © 2001

Overview

Editors:
  1. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

    1. The World Phenomenology Institute, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Evandro Agazzi

    1. University of Genoa, Italy

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 72)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Interpreting Illness and Medicine in the Context of Human Life: Experience vs. Objectivity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Illness as Lived Experience and as the Object of Medicine

      • Evandro Agazzi
      Pages 3-15

    3. The Construction of Illness: A Context Problem

      • Carlos Viesca
      Pages 17-32

    4. Defining Disease: Much Ado about Nothing?

      • Jennifer Worrall, John Worrall
      Pages 33-55

    5. Critique of Freud’s Notion of Mental Illness

      • Adolf Grünbaum
      Pages 57-70

    6. Cancer from the Medical and Existential Points of View

      • Mario V. Fiorentino
      Pages 71-79

    7. The Experience of Illness and the Meaning of Death

      • Massimo Reichlin
      Pages 81-95

  3. New Challenges to the Understanding of Medicine: The Ethical Parameters. Towards a New “Medical Humanism”

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Application or Interpretation?

      • Paolo Cattorini
      Pages 99-115

    3. Medicine as a Practice and the Ethics of Illness

      • Roberto Mordacci
      Pages 117-131

    4. Sense or Nonsense of Illness in Ethics of the Body

      • Peter Kemp
      Pages 133-146

    5. The Loss of the Sense of Illness: Euthanasia and the Right to Die

      • Rosangela Barcaro
      Pages 147-152

    6. Is It Possible to Give Sense to Illness?

      • Jean Ladrière
      Pages 153-179

    7. Towards a New Approach to Medical Humanism

      • Leon Cassiers
      Pages 181-192

  4. The Life-Transcending Parameters in the Interpretation of Suffering, Death, and Human Existence: Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Meaning of Suffering in Buddhism and Christianity

      • Hervé Barreau
      Pages 195-201

    3. The Christian Interpretation of Suffering

      • Wolfhart Pannenberg
      Pages 203-211

    4. La Maladie dans la Tradition Juive

      • Menahem R. Macina
      Pages 213-233

    5. La Souffrance de Job

      • Jean-Marie van Cangh
      Pages 235-248
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

In medicine the understanding and interpretation of the complex reality of illness currently refers either to an organismic approach that focuses on the physical or to a 'holistic' approach that takes into account the patient's human sociocultural involvement. Yet as the papers of this collection show, the suffering human person refers ultimately to his/her existential sphere. Hence, praxis is supplemented by still other perspectives for valuation and interpretation: ethical, spiritual, and religious.
Can medicine ignore these considerations or push them to the side as being subjective and arbitrary? Phenomenology/philosophy-of-life recognizes all of the above approaches to be essential facets of the Human Condition (Tymieniecka). This approach holds that all the facets of the Human Condition have equal objectivity and legitimacy. It completes the accepted medical outlook and points the way toward a new `medical humanism'.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The World Phenomenology Institute, USA

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

  • University of Genoa, Italy

    Evandro Agazzi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition

  • Book Subtitle: Medicine and Philosophy in a Dialogue

  • Editors: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Evandro Agazzi

  • Series Title: Analecta Husserliana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0780-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6983-7Published: 30 September 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3839-3Published: 09 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0780-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0167-7276

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8330

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 287

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Science, Ethics, Phenomenology

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation