Beschreibung:
This is the first monograph to deal with medicine as a form of hermeneutics, now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, including a whole new chapter on medical ethics. The book offers a comprehensive philosophical argument why good medical practice cannot be curtailed to scientific investigations of the body but is a form of clinical hermeneutics performed by health-care professionals in dialogue with their patients. Medical hermeneutics is rooted in a phenomenology of illness which acknowledges and proceeds from the ill party's bodily feelings, everyday life-world circumstances and self-understanding in aiming to restore health.
Chapter 1. The Clinical Encounter.- Chapter 2. Phenomenology and Health Theory.- Chapter 3. Illness as Unhomelike Being in the world.- Chapter 4. The Hermeneutics of Medicine.- Chapter 5. Hermeneutics and Medical Ethics.