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This is the first monograph to deal with medicine as a form of hermeneutics, now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, including a whole new chapter on medical ethics. The book offers a comprehensive philosophical argument why good medical practice cannot be curtailed to scientific investigations of the body but is a form of clinical hermeneutics performed by health-care professionals in dialogue with their patients. Medical hermeneutics is rooted in a phenomenology of illness which acknowledges and proceeds from the ill party’s bodily feelings, everyday life-world circumstances and self-understanding in aiming to restore health. The author shows how the works of classical phenomenologists and hermeneuticians – Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur – may be employed to understand how medical diagnosis is enveloped by professional empathy and clinical judgement and developed by scientific investigations of the patient’s bodily condition. Health and illness are ultimately considered to be ways of feeling at home or not at home in the world, and such experiences are the starting point of medical hermeneutics when aiming to make best use of scientific knowledge. The book is aimed at researchers and teachers in philosophy of medicine and medical ethics, and at physicians, nurses and other health-care professionals meeting with patients in ethically complex and challenging situations. Phenomenology and hermeneutics, most often considered as methods belonging to the humanities, are shown to be of vital importance for the understanding of medical practice and ethical dilemmas of health care.

Philosophy --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- History of human medicine --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Human medicine --- volksgezondheid --- filosofie --- geneeskunde --- bio-ethiek --- medische ethiek --- existentialisme --- Medicine --- Phenomenology. --- Bioethics. --- Public health. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Public Health. --- Philosophy. --- Theory of knowledge

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This book explores how the continental philosophical tradition in the 20th century attempted to understand madness as madness. It traces the paradoxical endeavour of reason attempting to understand madness without dissolving the inherent strangeness and otherness of madness. It provides a comprehensive overview of the contributions of phenomenology, critical theory, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and anti-psychiatry to continental philosophy and psychiatry. The book outlines an intellectual tradition of psychiatry that is both fascinated by and withdraws from madness. Madness is a lure for philosophy in two senses; as both trap and provocation. It is a trap because this philosophical tradition constructs an otherness of madness so profound, that it condemns madness to silence. However, the idea of madness as another world is also a fertile provocation because it respects the non-identity of madness to reason. The book concludes with some critical reflections on the role of madness in contemporary philosophical thought. Alastair Morgan is a Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK.

Philosophy --- Psychology --- General ethics --- History of human medicine --- Psychiatry --- Human medicine --- psychiatrie --- psychologie --- ethiek --- filosofie --- geneeskunde --- persoonlijkheidsleer --- Europe --- Medicine --- Continental Philosophy. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Self. --- Ethics. --- Psychiatry. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Philosophy of the Self. --- Moral Psychology. --- Philosophy. --- Continental philosophy.

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