Hermeneutics of medicine in the wake of Gadamer: The issue of phronesis

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 407-431

  Svenaeus, Fredrik ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aristole; Gadamer; Heidegger; Medical hermeneutics; Phenomenology of health and illness; Phronesis; Virtue ethics

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICINE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN; RELIGION; REVIEW; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 0346458988     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:META.0000006935.10835.b2     Document Type: Review

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