Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition
In medicine the understanding and interpretation of the complex reality of illness currently refers either to an organismic approach that focuses on the physical or to a 'holistic' approach that takes into account the patient's human sociocultural involve
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ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH VOLUME LXXII
Founder and Editor-in-Chief" ANNA- TERESA TYMIENIECKA The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning Hanover, New Hampshire
For sequel volumes see the end of this volume.
LIFE INTERPRETATION AND THE SENSE OF ILLNESS WITHIN THE HUMAN CONDITION Medicine and Philosophy in a Dialogue
Edited by
ANNA- TERESA TYMIENIECKA The World Phenomenology Institute and
EVANDRO AGAZZI University of Genoa, ltaly
Published under the auspices of The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning A-T. Tymieniecka, President
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, BV.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 978-94-010-3839-3 ISBN 978-94-010-0780-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-01 0-0780-1
Printed on acid-free paper AU Rights Reserved © 2001 Springer Science+Bnsiness Media Dordrecht Origina11y published byKluwer Academic Publishers in 2001 Softcover reprint of the hardcover l st edition 200 1 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permis sion from the copyright owner.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THE THEME / The Human Condition as a System of Reference for
the Medical Interpretation of Illness
IX
A-T. TYMIENIECKA AND A. AGAZZI / Editors' Introduction:
The Complex PhenomenO'1 of Illness
xi
A- T. TYMIENIECKA / Topical Introduction: Illness, Life, and
The Human Condition
xv SECTION I
INTERPRETING ILLNESS AND MEDICINE IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN LIFE: EXPERIENCE VS. OBJECTIVITY E. AGAZZI / Illness as Lived Experience and as the Object of
Medicine C. VIESCA / The Construction of Illness: A Context Problem J. WORRALL and J. WORRALL / Defining Disease: Much Ado
3 17
33
about Nothing? A. GRUNBAUM / Critique of Freud's Notion of Mental Illness
57
M. V. FIORENTINO / Cancer from the Medical and Existential
71
Points of View M. REICHLIN / The Experience of Illness and the Meaning
81
of Death SECTION II NEW CHALLENGES TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF MEDICINE: THE ETHICAL PARAMETERS. TOWARDS A NEW "MEDICAL HUMANISM"
The Role of Clinical Bioethics between Moral Principles and Concrete Situations
99
R. MORDACCI I Medicine as a Practice and the Ethics of Illness
117
P. CATTORINI / Application or Interpretation?
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sense or Nonsense of Illness in Ethics of the Body The Loss of the Sense of Illness: Euthanasia and the Right to Die J. LADRIERE / Is it Possible to Give Sense to Illness? L. CASSIERS / Towards a New Approach to Medical Humanism P. KEMP /
133
R. BARCARO /
147 153 181
SECTION III THE LIFE-TRANSCENDING PARAMETERS IN THE INTERPRETATION OF SUFFERING, DEATH AND HUMAN EXISTENCE: BUDDHISM, JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY H. BARREAU /
w.
The Meaning of Suffering in Buddhism and
Christianity The Christian Interpretation of Suffering La Maladie dans la
