Between Phenomenology and Hermeneutics: Medicine as an Ethical Art

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  • Luiz Rohden University of the Sinos Valley (UNISINOS)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2017v16n2p243

Abstract

In this paper, I will explain and justify the relations between Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Medicine by an ethical point-of-view. Taking in mind the issues of illness and disease, I will present a philosophical analysis of the patient-physician relationship in order to justify the ethical stance of health professionals. This will be done firstly through a review of Havi Carel’s fascinating and pertinent reflection on the phenomenology of illness, to which I will add my own proposal of applying to the medical practice the Husserlian notion of epoché. Then, I will claim that an interpretative gaze of illness runs, explicitly or implicitly, through the epoché practice of health professionals. In the third part of this paper, bearing in mind William Stempsey's argument that medicine is an art, I will claim that both the physician’s stance and the philosopher’s stance, in their own particular professional practices – in phenomenology and philosophical-hermeneutics – actualize and set up a dialogical art that is, hence, of ethical nature in essence.

Author Biography

Luiz Rohden, University of the Sinos Valley (UNISINOS)

Possui graduação em Filosofia pela FAJE em convênio com Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1990), mestrado em Filosofia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (1994) e doutorado em Filosofia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (2000). Pós-doutorado no Boston College, EUA, com William Richardson, em 2006. Pós-doutorado na Penn State University, EUA, com Dennis Schmidt, em 2015. Atualmente é professor titular da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos. Coordenador do Programa de Pós-Graduação e do Curso de Graduação em Filosofia. A principal especialidade filosófica gira em torno da tradição hermenêutica. Tem experiência na área de Filosofia, com ênfase em Filosofia da Linguagem Teoria do Conhecimento Etica Hermenêutica, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: fenomenologia, linguagem, hermenêutica filosófica, metafísica e filosofia prática.

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2017-12-11

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2017)

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