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  • The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health

    Steps Towards a Philosophy of Medical Practice

    by F. Svenaeus ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Fredrik Svenaeus' book is a delight to read. Not only does he exhibit keen understanding of a wide range of topics and figures in both medicine and philosophy, but he manages to bring them together in an innovative manner that convincingly demonstrates how deeply these two significant fields can be and, in the end, must be mutually enlightening. Medicine, Svenaeus suggests, reveals deep but rarely ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Phenomenological Bioethics

    Medical Technologies, Human Suffering, and the Meaning of Being Alive

    by Fredrik Svenaeus ...
    Emerging medical technologies are changing our views on human nature and what it means to be alive, healthy, and leading a good life. Reproductive technologies, genetic diagnosis, organ transplantation, and psychopharmacological drugs all raise existential questions that need to be tackled by way of philosophical analysis. Yet questions regarding the meaning of life have been strangely absent from ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health

    Steps Towards a Philosophy of Medical Practice

    by Fredrik Svenaeus ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This is the first monograph to deal with medicine as a form of hermeneutics, now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, including a whole new chapter on medical ethics. The book offers a comprehensive philosophical argument why good medical practice cannot be curtailed to scientific investigations of the body but is a form of clinical hermeneutics performed by health-care professionals in ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

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    Virtues and Vices

    by Katarina Barrling, David Butterfield, Pär Cassel, Marie Kawthar Daouda, Torbjörn Elensky, Jessica Frazier, Peter Haldén, Thomas Idergard, Anthony Pagden, Ritchie Robertson, Hans Ruin, Malise Ruthven, Mateusz Strózynski, Fredrik Svenaeus, Sten Widmalm ...
    Narrated by Justine Harris ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 13 min

    What is a virtue and what is a sin? Is it possible to say that our actions are evil or good? Every age and culture have their own answers to these timeless questions. For example, in the Western Protestant tradition, the human body and its desire have been considered to be inherently evil, but that is not a position taken for granted in other cultures. Virtue and sin seem to represent a duality ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Can a City Be Sustainable? (State of the World)

    by The Worldwatch Institute ...
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  • Shadows on the Gulf

    A Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland

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  • The Peaceful People: The Penan and their Fight for the Forest

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    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Accomplishing Climate Governance

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  • Biosemiotic Medicine

    Healing in the World of Meaning

    Edited by Farzad Goli ...
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