Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
For decades European philosophers have offered important insights into the relation between the practices of medicine, the concept of illness, and society more broadly understood. These interventions have generally striven to be both historically nuanced and accessible to non-experts. From Georges Canguilhem’s seminal The Normal and the Pathological, Michel Foucault’s lectures on madness, sexuality, and biopolitics, Hans Jonas’s deeply thoughtful essays on the right to die, life extension, and ethics in a technological age, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s lectures on The Enigma of Health, and more recently Jürgen Habermas’s carefully nuanced interventions on the question of liberal eugenics, these thinkers have sought to engage the wider public as much as their fellow philosophers on questions of paramount importance to current bioethical and social-political debate. The essays contained here continue this tradition of engagement and accessibility. In the best practices of European philosophy, the contributions in this volumeaim to engage with and stimulate a broad spectrum of readers, not just experts. In doing so the volume offers a showcase of the richness and rigor of continental perspectives on medicine and society.
Table of Contents.- Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Part I: Figures and Grounds: Continental Approaches to Bioethics and Medicine.- Chapter 1, Gilbert Hottois; “Defining Bioethics”.- Chapter 2, Niall Keane; “On the Origins of Illness and the Hiddenness of Health: A Hermeneutic Approach to the History of a Problem”.-
Chapter 3; Michael Hauskeller; “The Ontological Ethics of Hans Jonas”.- Part II: The Experience of Illness: Phenomenological Approaches.- Chapter 4, Jenny Slatman and Guy Widdershoven; “An Ethics of Embodiment: The Body as Subject and Object”.- Chapter 5, Havi Carel; “Conspicuous, Obtrusive, Obstinate: A Phenomenology of the Ill Body”.- Chapter 6, Eran Dorfman; “The Body Between Pathology and The Everyday”.- Part III: The Normal and the Pathological.- Chapter 7, Andreas De Block and Jonathan Sholl; “Towards a Critique of Normalization: Canguilhem and Boorse”.- Chapter 8, Pieter Adrians ; “Are Paraphilias Mental Illnesses?”.- Chapter 9, Catherine Mills; “Liberal eugenics, human enhancement and the concept of the normal”.- Part IV: Life Itself: From Bio to Political.- Chapter 10, Charles Wolfe; “Was Canguilhem a Biochauvanist”.-
Chapter 11, Michael Lewis; “On (Auto)Immune Life: Derrida, Esposito and Agamben.- Chapter 12, Lisa Guenther; “The Psychopathology of Space: A Phenomenological Critique of Solitary Confinement”.- Part V: The Horizons of Medicine: Eugenics, Enhancement and Anthropotechics.- Chapter 13, Christien van den Anker; “The Right to be Impaired and the Legacy of Eugenics: a critical reading of the UN Convention on ‘disability’ rights”.- Chapter 14, Sylvie Allouche; “From Enhancement Medicine to Anthropotechnology”.- Chapter 15, Corry Shores; “Being Machine, Two Competing Model of Neuroprosthesis”.
Reihe/Serie | Philosophy and Medicine ; 120 |
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Zusatzinfo | 7 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 323 p. 7 illus. |
Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik | |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
ISBN-10 | 94-017-9869-9 / 9401798699 |
ISBN-13 | 978-94-017-9869-3 / 9789401798693 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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