02340namaa2200361uu 4500 doab68159 oapen 20260305123947.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 210427s2018 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d 9781786604835 oapen oapen eng dc M bicssc Aho, Kevin edt Existential Medicine Essays on Health and Illness Rowman & Littlefield International 2018 1 online resource (294 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Medicine bicssc medical science; philosophy; health care Aho, Kevin oth DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68159 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 92767 92767