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Existential Medicine
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Author : Kevin Aho
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-04-23
Existential Medicine written by Kevin Aho and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-23 with Philosophy categories.
Existential Medicine explores the recent impact that the philosophies of existentialism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics have had on the health care professions. A growing body of scholarship drawing primarily on the work of Martin Heidegger and other influential twentieth-century figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Hans-Georg Gadamer has shaped contemporary research in the fields of bioethics, narrative medicine, gerontology, enhancement medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy, and palliative care, among others. By regarding the human body as a decontextualized object, the prevailing paradigm of medical science often overlooks the body as it is lived. As a result, it fails to critically engage the experience of illness and the core questions of ‘what it means’ and ‘what it feels like’ to be ill. With work from emerging and renowned scholars in the field, this collection aims to shed light on these issues and the crucial need for clinicians to situate the experience of illness within the context of a patient’s life-world. To this end, Existential Medicine offers a valuable resource for philosophers and medical humanists as well as health care practitioners.
Existential Health Psychology
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Author : Patrick M. Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-06-24
Existential Health Psychology written by Patrick M. Whitehead and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-24 with Psychology categories.
This volume critiques the increasingly reductive, objectifying, and technologized orientation in mainstream biomedicine. Drawing on the methods of hermeneutic phenomenology and existential analysis in the work of Martin Heidegger, Kurt Goldstein, Medard Boss, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the author seeks to expose this lacuna and explore the ways in which it misrepresents (or misunderstands) the human condition. Whitehead begins by examining the core distinction in the sociology of medicine between “disease” and “illness” and how this distinction maps onto a more fundamental distinction between the corporeal/objective body and the experiential/lived body. Ultimately, the book exposes the tendency in modern medicine to medicalize the human condition and forwards a reorientation framed by what the author terms “existential health psychology.”
Existential Foundations Of Medicine And Psychology
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Author : Medard Boss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Existential Foundations Of Medicine And Psychology written by Medard Boss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Clinical psychology categories.
Existential Medical Ethics
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Author : Richard George Boudreau
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2023-09-25
Existential Medical Ethics written by Richard George Boudreau and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-25 with Medical categories.
When you think of the words medicine and philosophy, your first thought might be that the two words aren’t related. What could they possibly have in common? Once upon a time, however, existential philosophy and medicine were inextricably linked. In the days of ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, and even during the Renaissance, the practice of medicine without some kind of philosophical underpinning simply wouldn’t be considered. But as our thinking moved from the spiritual to the rational, philosophy became a focus for the humanities, while medicine fell into science. That “unlinking” we have today makes visiting the doctor because you aren’t feeling very well a very trying prospect. Richard George Boudreau, a maxillofacial surgeon, bioethicist, attorney at law, forensic expert, has numerous academic credentials, including MA, MBA, DDS, MD, JD, PhD, PsyD degrees, examines the existential philosophical underpinnings that have influenced perceptions of health, wellness, illness, and medicine since the time of the ancient Greeks in this scholarly work. He argues that interpreting and evaluating theoretical foundations and the meanings they hold are essential to defining a workable philosophy of medicine. Find out how bringing philosophy, the mind-body connection, and other ideas into alignment with medicine can benefit patients, doctors, and the entire medical system. “I continue to marvel at Dr. Boudreau’s brilliance, energy and productivity.” Barry I. Ludwig, MD UCLA Clinical Professor of Neurology
The Illness Is The Cure
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Author : Peter Wilberg
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2012-08-15
The Illness Is The Cure written by Peter Wilberg and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-15 with Medical categories.
What if 'explaining' an illness is one thing, but understanding it is quite another? What if illnesses have life meanings and not just scientific 'explanations' and biological 'causes' or 'cures'? What if the biology of the human body cannot be separated from the biography of the human being? What if the life of the human body cannot be separated from the life of the human being in all its existential dimensions – personal, social and economic? What if every bodily state is at the same time a state of consciousness and vice versa – thus making nonsense of the separation between 'body' and 'mind', medical treatments on the one hand and psychological therapies on the other? Last but not least, what if 'the illness is the cure' - and not something to be cured? In a way that is clear and practically helpful to both lay readers, patients and health professionals alike, this book challenges the most basic assumptions of almost all forms of medicine – 'modern' or 'traditional', 'scientific' or 'spiritual' – namely that illness is something to be cured rather than being the cure. To do so it draws on the work of Illich, Heidegger and many others to introduces a fundamentally new approach to health and illness – 'Life Medicine' and 'Life Doctoring'. Life Doctoring is a new form of non-biomedical therapy for serious and chronic illness. Instead of employing standard forms of medical testing and treatment the Life Doctor is there to help the individual come to an understanding of the ways their own particular illness 'is the cure' – how it is a potential source of new healing understandings of themselves and of a healing transformation of their lives. Life Medicine is a new understanding of health and illness that does not separate science and life, biology and biography, the life of the human body and the life of the human being. Instead its focus is on the larger life context and specific life meanings that particular symptoms and illnesses hold for the individual patient. For as Marx wrote: “The idea of one basis for science and another for life is from the very outset a lie.” This 'lie' unfortunately has dire consequences. For as research by the medical establishment itself has confirmed, conventional biomedical diagnosis and treatment through drugs and surgery is itself the leading cause of premature death – ahead of both cancer and heart disease. By offering an entirely new framework for understanding the essential nature of 'health' and 'illness', Life Doctoring can help patients understand the underlying sense of 'dis-ease' in their lives that lies behind their clinically diagnosed illness or 'disease'. In this way it can also serve to (a) prevent an individual's 'dis-ease manifesting as clinical 'disease', and (b) educate patients about the possible dangers and potentially sickness-causing or 'iatrogenic' effects of many standard forms of biomedical testing and treatment. The continuing monopoly over knowledge of the human body that biomedicine claims has one basic reason – namely that it is not actually 'science-driven' but 'money driven' – turning illness into a source of vast profits for Big Pharma and the corporate health industry as a whole. Many people are angered by the global trend toward the privatisation of medical care or else concerned about the rising costs. Yet the roots of this trend lie in the fact that illness itself has long been 'privatised' – seen as bearing no relation at all to the social and economic ills affecting the patient and to the sicknesses of society itself. To argue that 'the illness is the cure' is also to recognise that illness is also an expression of a fundamentally sick world. Through Life Medicine and Life Doctoring, illness can also help us to recognise and respond in new ways to this world and its politics - and in this way help to heal it. “The first task of the doctor is ... political…” Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Existential Foundations Of Medicine Psychology
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Author : Medard Boss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Existential Foundations Of Medicine Psychology written by Medard Boss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Existential psychology categories.
Existential Psychotherapy
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Author : Irvin D. Yalom
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Existential Psychotherapy written by Irvin D. Yalom and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Psychology categories.
The definitive account of existential psychotherapy. First published in 1980, Existential Psychotherapy is widely considered to be the foundational text in its field— the first to offer a methodology for helping patients to develop more adaptive responses to life’s core existential dilemmas. In this seminal work, American psychiatrist Irvin Yalom finds the essence of existential psychotherapy and gives it a coherent structure, synthesizing its historical background, core tenets, and usefulness to the practice. Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four "ultimate concerns of life"—death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness—the book takes up the meaning of each existential concern and the type of conflict that springs from our confrontation with each. He shows how these concerns are manifest in personality and psychopathology, and how treatment can be helped by our knowledge of them. Drawing from clinical experience, empirical research, philosophy, and great literature, Yalom provides an intellectual home base for those psychotherapists who have sensed the incompatibility of orthodox theories with their own clinical experience, and opens new doors for empirical research. The fundamental concerns of therapy and the central issues of human existence are woven together here as never before, with intellectual and clinical results that have surprised and enlightened generations of readers.
Being With Parkinson S The Role Of Existential Phenomenology In Modern Medicine
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Author : Julius Friedrich Wilhelm Schulten
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2022-11-09
Being With Parkinson S The Role Of Existential Phenomenology In Modern Medicine written by Julius Friedrich Wilhelm Schulten and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-09 with Philosophy categories.
Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, Saarland University (Philosophie), course: "Death as the Possibility of the Impossibility": Decision and Mortality in Heidegger and Kierkegaard, language: English, abstract: Why should the practitioner of internal medicine care if another method, rivalling his state-of-the-art medicine is available? I argue that this is an illusion. If the primary or the internal physician, who see most patients, does not take the time to explore the patient’s being, how could psychiatric disease or even existential suffering be detected? The best method might be a synthesis of modern algorithm- and evidence-based medicine with existential-phenomenological approaches since the physician does not know what ails the patient if there is no insight into his mode of being. Medicine has a growing interest in existential phenomenology and existential literature has a negatively connotated but nevertheless relevant interest in medicine. As is shown in the case of Ivan Ilych, we should strive to translate the fields into one another to further understanding: what does it mean for an illness to be existential? Great progress has been made to operationalize this concept by the likes of GRECH, MARKS (2017). Now it is time for doctors to pick it up and put it to good use in two ways: first, understand the patients’ existential worries; second, communicate in existential terms, not esoteric pathophysiology.
Life The Human Being Between Life And Death
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Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-11-11
Life The Human Being Between Life And Death written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-11 with Philosophy categories.
Medicine's crucial concern with health is perennial, but its reflection, concepts, means change with the advance of science and social life. We present here a fascinating panorama of current medical discussions with their philosophical underpinnings, and queries as they have evolved from the past. The role of Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life is brought forth as the system of philosophical reference.
Principles Of Holistic Medicine
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Author : Søren Ventegodt
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2005
Principles Of Holistic Medicine written by Søren Ventegodt and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Health & Fitness categories.
Based on work done in Denmark we make the argument that knowing the meaning of your own life and living accordingly is the real source of health and well-being.