Beschreibung
Becoming ill has the power to plunge people into an existential crisis. Modern medicine reacts to this by applying methods of natural science and by using state-of-the-art technology, but it often leaves the person, who is suffering this crisis, alone. Giovanni Maio draws attention to the one-sidedness of medical treatment which is oriented towards natural science and develops an ethical approach to medicine based on the power of empathy and care. He provides examples of this that are taken from medical practice. In a condensed phenomenology of illness he illustrates how, in the case of chronic pain, cancer, dementia or in the final stages of a terminally ill patients life, the curative power of understanding can, through empathy in medical care, be brought to bear on the field of medicine.
Autorenporträt
Giovanni Maio, Prof. Dr., geboren 1964, Studium der Medizin und Philosophie in Freiburg, Straßburg und Hagen. Seit 2005 Professor für Bioethik, seit 2006 Direktor des Instituts für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, und Geschäftsführender Direktor des Instituts für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin. Er berät die Deutsche Bischofskonferenz wie auch die Bundesregierung und die Bundesärztekammer.
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