Phenomenology of Bioethics: Technoethics and Lived-Experience

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This book offers a unique description of how phenomenology can help professionals from medical, environmental and social fields to explore notions such as interaffectivity, empathy, epoche, reduction, and intersubjective encounter. Written by a group of top scholars, it uniquely covers the relationship between phenomenology and bioethics, and focuses not only on medical cases, but also on the environment and emerging technologies. This variety of themes, whilst including techno-ethics, environmental ethics, animal ethics, and medical ethics, is conducive to appreciating broadly how phenomenology can improve our quality of our life. Despite its difficult themes, the book appeals to an audience of both academics and professionals who are willing to understand how to increase the quality of care in their professional field. Chapter 8 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Introduction Contents 1 Bioethics, the Ontology of Life, and the Hermeneutics of Biology 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Interpretation and Understanding 1.3 Exploring Bioethical Sense-Making 1.4 The Ontology of Life in Bioethical Sense-Making 1.5 Science and the Hermeneutic Context of Bioethics 1.6 Genetic Essentialism and the Programme Conception 1.7 Pressure on the Programme: Empirical Evidence and Hermeneutic Adequacy 1.8 Developmental Constructivism: The Genome as Resource 1.9 Interpretive Choices, Bioethical Implications 1.10 Conclusion References 2 Phenomenology and Medical Devices 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Defining Medical Devices 2.3 Borgmann: Device Paradigm 2.4 Ihde: Human-Machine Relations 2.5 Merleau-Ponty: The Body-Subject 2.5.1 Incorporation 2.5.2 Motor Intentionality 2.5.3 Situational Horizonality 2.5.4 Bodily Rhythm 2.6 Conclusion References 3 Phenomenology of Illness, Resilience and Well-Being: A Contribution to Person-Centred Approaches in Healthcare 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The Partnership Between Phenomenological and Scientific Approaches 3.3 Phenomenological Theories of Illness and Health 3.4 Sketch of a Meaning-Centred Approach 3.5 Existential Resilience 3.6 Conclusion: Contributions of the Meaning-Centred Approach to Healthcare References 4 Integrative Bioethics as the Phenomenology of Life 4.1 Introduction—On the Mereological Life Integrativity 4.2 Life Sciences Without Phenomenology and (Bio)Ethics? 4.3 Integrative Phenomenology of the Lifeworld 4.4 Bioethical Sensibility and Orientational Knowledge 4.5 Integrative Bioethics and the Psyche 4.6 Conclusion References 5 Compassion Fatigue: Assessing the Psychological and Moral Boundaries of Empathy 5.1 Compassion Fatigue: The Boundaries of Empathy 5.2 Inter-affectivity and Vulnerability: Reframing Empathy 5.3 From Compassion Fatigue to Solicitude: Fleshing Out Empathy References 6 Phenomenology Applied to Animal Health and Suffering 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Phenomenological Tradition 6.3 What Is It like to Be? 6.3.1 Embodied Phenomenology 6.4 Merleau-Ponty and Animal Phenomenology 6.5 What Is It like to Be Ill? 6.6 Measuring Animal Phenomenology 6.7 Implications for Our Treatment of Animals 6.8 Conclusion References 7 The Transcendental Quality of Digital Health and Social Media 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Disembodied Technology and Its Ethical Opacity 7.3 Digital Health 7.3.1 The Positive Side 7.3.2 The Ethically Opaque Side 7.3.3 The Social Mediome, Context-Based Technology? 7.3.4 The Dark Side of the Social Mediome 7.4 Concluding Remarks References 8 Painful Experience and Constitution of the Intersubjective Self: A Critical-Phenomenological Analysis 8.1 Introduction 8.2 I: Review and Critique of Conceptual Analyses of Pain 8.3 IIa: Critical Phenomenology of Pain 8.4 IIb: Pain That Matters 8.5 Conclusion References 9 How to Understand Feelings of Vitality: An Approach to Their Nature, Varieties, and Functions 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Feelings of Vitality and the Contemporary Categories of the Affective Mind 9.3 Vital Feelings as a Sui Generis Class: Re-assessing Scheler’s Proposal 9.4 Varieties of Lived Bodily Experience 9.5 Feeling Ourselves: Self-Feeling and Self-Consciousness 9.6 Concluding Remarks References 10 Resuscitating Embodied Presence in Healthcare: The Encounter with le Visage in Levinas 10.1 It’s a Screen-World 10.2 Enter the iPatient 10.3 The Lure 10.4 Levinas and le Visage 10.5 Moral Invitation/Command 10.6 In Closing—Two Pulses References Conclusion Index