Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness
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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. Existential Medicine......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Editor’s Introduction Existential Medicine: Heidegger and the Lessons from Zollikon......Page 12 Part I New Currents in Existential Psychiatry......Page 26 1 The Cure for Existential Inauthenticity......Page 28 2 Emotional Disturbance, Trauma, and Authenticity: A Phenomenological-Contextualist Psychoanalytic Perspective......Page 42 3 Beyond the Ontological Difference: Heidegger, Binswanger, and the Future of Existential Analysis......Page 52 4 From Anxiety to Nostalgia: A Heideggerian Analysis......Page 68 Part II Phenomenologies of Anxiety, Pain, and Death......Page 84 5 The World of Chronic Pain: A Dialog......Page 86 6 On the Autós of Autonomous Decision Making: Intercorporeality, Temporality, and Enacted Normativities in Transplantation Medicine......Page 106 7 Reclaiming Embodiment in Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms (MUPS)......Page 126 8 Heidegger, Curing Aging, and the Desirability of Immortality......Page 140 Part III Ethics, Medicalization, and Technology......Page 154 9 Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology and the Perils of Medicalization......Page 156 10 Breathlessness: From Bodily Symptom to Existential Experience......Page 170 11 Heideggerian Ethics and the Permissibility of Bio- and Nano-Medicine......Page 186 Part IV Existential Health......Page 202 12 Losing the Measure of Health: Phenomenological Reflections on the Role of Techne in Health Care Today......Page 204 13 Existential Medicine and the Intersubjective Body......Page 216 14 Health Like a Broken Hammer or the Strange Wish to Make Health Disappear......Page 230 15 What is it to “Age Well”? Re-visioning Later Life......Page 248 References......Page 260 Index......Page 280 About the Contributors......Page 290
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