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This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of the field, it proceeds through a delineation of such key notions as trust and uncertainty, dialogue involving talk and listening, the vulnerability of the patient against the asymmetric power of the health professional, along with professional and individual responsibility. It emphasizes several themes fundamental to ethics and health care:  (1) the work of ethics requires strict focus on the specific situational understanding of each involved person. (2) Moral issues, at least those intrinsic to each clinical encounter, are presented solely within the contexts of their actual occurrence; therefore, ethics must not only be practical but empirical in its approach. (3) Each particular situation is in its own way imprecise and uncertain, and the different types and dimensions of imprecision and uncertainty are critical for everyone involved. (4) Finally, medicine and health care more broadly are governed by the effort to make sense of the healer’s experiences with the patient, whose own experiences and interpretations are ingredient to what the healer seeks to understand and eventually treat. In addition to providing a way to develop ethical considerations in clinical life and research projects, the book proposes that narratives provide the finest way to state and grapple with these themes and issues, whether in classrooms or real-life situations. It concludes with a prospective analysis of newly emerging issues presented by and within the new genetics, which, together within a focus on the phenomenon of birth, leads to an clearer understanding of human life.

Philosophy. --- Ethics. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Sociology, general. --- Philosophy (General). --- Medical ethics. --- Morale --- Ethique médicale --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Ethics --- Bioethics. --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Sociology. --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Values --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Science

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The second of a planned six volume of Gurwitsch’s writings, this volume is a corrected version of a collection he published in 1966. It was intended to complement the English edition of The Field of Consciousness (1964), which is the third volume of these Works in English. It contains his own introduction addressing his motivation as a phenomenologist and the situation at the time of publication. Included are English translations of his doctoral thesis, Phenomenology of Thematics and the Pure Ego (1929) and the substantial study based on his first Sorbonne lecture course, "Some Aspects and Developments of Gestalt Psychology" (1936), which made his name in Paris when he fled there from Germany after the rise of National Socialism. Other studies draw on the work in psychiatry of Kurt Goldstein and relate phenomenology to René Descartes, William James, Immanuel Kant, and tendencies in modern thought, thus complementing the historical perspectives resorted of in Vol. I. Thematic problematics addressed include the noema, the ego, eideation, and logic.

Consciousness. --- Phenomenology -- History. --- Phenomenology. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Phenomenological psychology. --- Psychological phenomenology --- Psychology, Phenomenological --- Philosophy. --- Epistemology. --- Modern philosophy. --- History of Philosophy. --- Modern Philosophy. --- Existential psychology --- Personality --- Phenomenology --- Psychology --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Spirit --- Self --- Phenomenology . --- Genetic epistemology. --- Philosophy (General). --- Philosophy, modern. --- Developmental psychology --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Philosophy, Modern --- Modern philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Early Modern Philosophy. --- History.