Life the Human Being between Life and Death: A Dialogue between Medicine and Philosophy: Recurrent Issues and New Approaches (Analecta Husserliana, 64)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-11 The Ontopoietic Design of Life and Medicine’s Search for the Norm....Pages 13-36 Front Matter....Pages 37-37 Two Models of Medical Knowledge....Pages 39-47 The Logics of Medicine: Discovery and Evaluation....Pages 49-56 An Analysis of Medical Knowledge and Reasoning....Pages 57-66 The Significance of “Alternative Medicine” for the Philosophy of Medicine....Pages 67-74 The Phenomenological Aspects of Mental Disorders....Pages 75-84 Illness as Evil and Illness as Good....Pages 85-90 The Aesthetics of Medicine....Pages 91-101 Medicine and Art....Pages 103-111 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 The Zapping Animal: Oscillating Images of the Human Person in Modern Medicine....Pages 115-123 New Biomedical Developments and Their Impact on the Legal Theory and Practice of the Mind-Body Relationship....Pages 125-133 The Human Being — A Cosmic Being....Pages 135-144 The Philosophical Foundations of Yoga Therapy....Pages 145-151 To Be (Alive) or to Have (Good Health)....Pages 153-159 (Wo)Man and Death in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century....Pages 161-171 Existential Values....Pages 173-182 Is Personalism an Adequate Moral System for Bioethics?....Pages 183-192 Front Matter....Pages 193-193 From Abortion to Euthanasia: Rethinking the Value of Life at the End of the Christian Age....Pages 195-207 Changing Values in Contemporary Medicine....Pages 209-221 Front Matter....Pages 193-193 Clinical Decisions, Impaired Capacity and the Public Interest....Pages 223-238 Advance Directives: Self-Determination, Physician’s Responsibility, Value of Life....Pages 239-253 The Ethical Problems of Doctors’ Decisions: The Patient’s Autonomy and Paternalism....Pages 255-262 Some Remarks on “Quasi-Surrogate” Decision-Making....Pages 263-269 Justice and Beneficence in Deficiency Medicine....Pages 271-281 The Media and Health....Pages 283-292 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 The Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine: Lessons from the Past....Pages 295-308 Władysław Szumowski: Forerunner of Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine....Pages 309-315 Back Matter....Pages 317-324