The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health: Steps Towards a Philosophy of Medical Practice

by Fredrik Svenaeus

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031072839
• ISBN13: 9783031072833
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"