The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health

This volume explores topics and figures in both medicine and philosophy, and brings them together to show how they are mutually enlightening. Heidegger's phenom... » 

This volume explores topics and figures in both medicine and philosophy, and brings them together to show how they are mutually enlightening. Heidegger's phenomenology and Gadamer's hermeneutics are shown to have potential for making sense of themes long buried within Western medicine. «