The hermeneutics of medicine and the phenomenology of health : steps towards a philosophy of medical practice / by Fredrik Svenaeus, Department of Health and Society, University of Lin̈koping, Sweden.

Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2000]

xi, 201 pages ; 25 cm.

Pt. 1. The Clinical Encounter -- 1.1. The Rise of a Western Tradition of Medicine -- 1.2. The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Pre-Modern Western Medicine -- 1.3. The Birth of Modern Medicine -- 1.4. Medical Technology -- 1.5. The Modern Medical Meeting -- Success and Crisis -- 1.6. Research on the Clinical Encounter in the Twentieth Century -- 1.7. The Social and Cultural Background -- 1.8. Philosophy of Medicine -- Pt. 2. The Phenomenology of Health and Illness -- 2.1. The Ancient Tradition -- 2.2. The Biostatistical Theory -- Boorse -- 2.3. The Holistic Theory -- Nordenfelt -- 2.4. Husserl's Phenomenology -- 2.5. The Phenomena of Health and Illness -- 2.6. Heidegger's Phenomenology -- 2.7. Health as Homelike Being-in-the-World -- 2.8. Homelikeness as the Rhythm of Life -- 2.9. Ability to Act and Attuned Understanding -- 2.10. The Lived Body and the Broken Tool -- 2.11. Health and Phenomenology -- Medicine and Hermeneutics -- Pt. 3. The Hermeneutics of Medicine -- 3.1. Explanation and Understanding -- 3.2. Hermeneutics -- The Choice of Gadamer -- 3.3. Medicine and Hermeneutics -- 3.4. Ricoeur -- Textuality and Narrativity in Medicine -- 3.5. The Medical Meeting -- Interpretation Through Dialogue -- 3.6. Lifeworlds and Horizons in the Medical Meeting -- 3.7. The Goal of the Medical Meeting(s) -- 3.8. The Hermeneutics of Medicine -- A Recapitulation and Discussion -- 3.9. Between Facts and Norms -- Descriptive and Normative Analysis in the Philosophy of Medicine -- 3.10. Concluding Remarks and Future Projects -- To Approach Medical Ethics from Attunement.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and indexes.