Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul

✍ Scribed by Henk ten Have, Renzo Pegoraro

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Series: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This thought-provoking book explores the connections between health, ethics, and soul. It analyzes how and why the soul has been lost from scientific discourses, healthcare practices, and ethical discussions, presenting suggestions for change.

Arguing that the dominant scientific worldview has eradicated talk about the soul and presents an objective and technical approach to human life and its vulnerabilities, Ten Have and Pegoraro look to rediscover identity, humanity, and meaning in healthcare and bioethics. Taking a mulitidisciplinary approach, they investigate philosophical, scientific, historical, cultural, social, religious, economic, and environmental perspectives as they journey toward a new, global bioethics, emphasizing the role of the moral imagination.

Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul is an important read for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in bioethics and person-centred healthcare.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
1 Introduction: the soul in healthcare and ethics
The erasure of the soul
Medicine lost its soul
Bioethics lost its soul
What is lost when the soul is dead?
The disenchantment of the world
Images without soul
Moral imagination
Recovering the soul: inspiring images
Another bioethics
2 The erasure of the soul
Proclaiming the death of the soul
The scientific worldview of naturalism
Dualism
Conclusion
3 The disenchantment of the world
The disenchantment thesis
The Iron Cage
Disenchantment of medicine
Disenchantment of bioethics
Re-enchantment
Conclusion
4 The lost soul – images without soul
Homo economicus
Body mechanism
The lone ranger
Detached concern
Consumer and client
Conclusion
5 Moral imagination
Images and imaginary visions
Imagination and philosophy
Imagination and ethics
Moral imagination
Capabilities of imagination
Possibilities for change
Civilization and decency
Global bioethics
Conclusion
6 Recovering the soul – inspiring images
The warm doctor
Holistic care
Life as story
Sacred values
The blue marbles
Conclusion
7 Another bioethics
Introduction
New contexts of ethical discourse
Implications for ethics
Bioethics dreaming
Imaginative bioethics
A new concept of bioethics
The end of bioethics
Bioethics and civilization
The role of education
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index