Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul

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This thought-provoking book explores the connections between health, ethics, and soul. It analyzes how and why the soul has been lost from scientific discourses, healthcare practices, and ethical discussions, presenting suggestions for change. Arguing that the dominant scientific worldview has eradicated talk about the soul and presents an objective and technical approach to human life and its vulnerabilities, Ten Have and Pegoraro look to rediscover identity, humanity, and meaning in healthcare and bioethics. Taking a mulitidisciplinary approach, they investigate philosophical, scientific, historical, cultural, social, religious, economic, and environmental perspectives as they journey toward a new, global bioethics, emphasizing the role of the moral imagination. Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul is an important read for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in bioethics and person-centred healthcare. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents 1 Introduction: the soul in healthcare and ethics The erasure of the soul Medicine lost its soul Bioethics lost its soul What is lost when the soul is dead? The disenchantment of the world Images without soul Moral imagination Recovering the soul: inspiring images Another bioethics 2 The erasure of the soul Proclaiming the death of the soul The scientific worldview of naturalism Dualism Conclusion 3 The disenchantment of the world The disenchantment thesis The Iron Cage Disenchantment of medicine Disenchantment of bioethics Re-enchantment Conclusion 4 The lost soul – images without soul Homo economicus Body mechanism The lone ranger Detached concern Consumer and client Conclusion 5 Moral imagination Images and imaginary visions Imagination and philosophy Imagination and ethics Moral imagination Capabilities of imagination Possibilities for change Civilization and decency Global bioethics Conclusion 6 Recovering the soul – inspiring images The warm doctor Holistic care Life as story Sacred values The blue marbles Conclusion 7 Another bioethics Introduction New contexts of ethical discourse Implications for ethics Bioethics dreaming Imaginative bioethics A new concept of bioethics The end of bioethics Bioethics and civilization The role of education Conclusion Bibliography Index