Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, Volume LXXII: Life – Interpretation and the Sense of Illness Within the Human Condition, Medicine and Philosophy
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In medicine the understanding and interpretation of the complex reality of illness now refers either to an organismic approach that focuses on the corporal or to a ‘holistic’ approach that takes into account the patient’s human sociocultural involvement. Yet as the papers of this collection show, the suffering human person refers ultimately to his/her existential sphere. Hence, praxis is supplemented by still other perspectives for valuation and interpretation: ethical, spiritual, and religious. Can medicine ignore these considerations or push them to the side as being subjective and arbitrary? Phenomenology/philosophy-of-life recognizes all of the above approaches to be essential facets of the Human Shape up (Tymieniecka). This approach holds that all the facets of the Human Shape up have equal detachment and legitimacy. It completes the accepted medical outlook and points the way toward a new `medical humanism’.
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