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

by Fredrik Svenaeus

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031072804
• ISBN13: 9783031072802
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"