000 02340namaa2200361uu 4500
001 doab68159
003 oapen
005 20260305123947.0
006 m o d
007 cr|mn|---annan
008 210427s2018 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d
020 _a9781786604835
040 _aoapen
_coapen
041 0 _aeng
042 _adc
072 7 _aM
_2bicssc
720 1 _aAho, Kevin
_4edt
245 0 0 _aExistential Medicine
_bEssays on Health and Illness
260 _bRowman & Littlefield International
_c2018
300 _a1 online resource (294 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
506 0 _aFree-to-read
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aExistential 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.
540 _aAll rights reserved
_uhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights
546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aMedicine
_2bicssc
653 _amedical science; philosophy; health care
720 1 _aAho, Kevin
_4oth
793 0 _aDOAB Library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68159
_70
_zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication
999 _c92767
_d92767