Life — Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition

Abstract

Published under the auspices of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning. Human Condition as a System of Reference for the Medical Interpretation of Illness / The Theme ix -- Editors' Introduction: The Complex Phenomenon of Illness / A-T. Tymieniecka, A. Agazzi xi -- Topical Introduction: Illness, Life, and The Human Condition / A-T. Tymieniecka xv -- Section I Interpreting Illness and Medicine in the Context of Human Life: Experience vs. Objectivity -- Illness as Lived Experience and as the Object of Medicine / E. Agazzi 3 -- Construction of Illness: A Context Problem / C. Viesca 17 -- Defining Disease: Much Ado about Nothing? / J. Worrall, J. Worrall 33 -- Critique of Freud's Notion of Mental Illness / A. Grunbaum 57 -- Cancer from the Medical and Existential Points of View / M.V. Fiorentino 71 -- Experience of Illness and the Meaning of Death / M. Reichlin 81 -- Section II New Challenges to the Understanding of Medicine: the Ethical Parameters. Towards a New "Medical Humanism" -- Application or Interpretation? The Role of Clinical Bioethics between Moral Principles and Concrete Situations / P. Cattorini 99 -- Medicine as a Practice and the Ethics of Illness / R. Mordacci 117 -- Sense or Nonsense of Illness in Ethics of the Body / P. Kemp 133 -- Loss of the Sense of Illness: Euthanasia and the Right to Die / R. Barcaro 147 -- Is it Possible to Give Sense to Illness? / J. Ladriere 153 -- Towards a New Approach to Medical Humanism / L. Cassiers 181 -- Section III Life-Transcending Parameters in the Interpretation of Suffering, Death and Human Existence: Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity -- Meaning of Suffering in Buddhism and Christianity / H. Barreau 195 -- Christian Interpretation of Suffering / W. Pannenberg 203 -- La Maladie dans la Tradition Juive: Orthodoxie et Orthopraxie / M.R. Macina 213 -- La Souffrance de Job / J-M. Van Cangh 235 -- Le Sens de la Maladie: Une Perspective Spirituelle Chretienne / E. Bianchi 249 -- La Signification des Miracles de Jesus / J. Dore 263.