The Enigma of Health
by Gadamer, Hans-GeorgFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-03-01
Publisher(s): Stanford Univ Pr
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Summary
The book brings together thirteen essays presented to medical and psychiatric societies, mainly during the 1970's and 1980's. In these essays, Gadamer justifies the reasons for a philosophical interest in health and medicine, and a corresponding need for health practitioners to enter into a dialogue with philosophy.
Author Biography
Hans-Georg Gadamer, now ninety-five, is one of Germany's most eminent philosophers. Many of his books have appeared in English translation, including the seminal Truth and Method (Sheed and Ward, Ltd., l975) and, closest in topic, perhaps, to this book, Reason in the Age of Science (MIT, l982).
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Theory, Technology, Praxis | p. 1 |
| Apologia for the Art of Healing | p. 31 |
| The Problem of Intelligence | p. 45 |
| The Experience of Death | p. 61 |
| Bodily Experience and the Limits of Objectification | p. 70 |
| Between Nature and Art | p. 83 |
| Philosophy and Practical Medicine | p. 92 |
| On the Enigmatic Character of Health | p. 103 |
| Authority and Critical Freedom | p. 117 |
| Treatment and Dialogue | p. 125 |
| Life and Soul | p. 141 |
| Anxiety and Anxieties | p. 152 |
| Hermeneutics and Psychiatry | p. 163 |
| Index | p. 175 |
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