This book contains the most recent papers problematizing the notions of health, vulnerability, and well-being for individuals and their environment. Organized in 5 sections the book takes into consideration the critical and phenomenological history of well-being and health, their technological manipulation, how these notions connect with the body and the specific vulnerability of the human being, and what responsible direction we can take to improve people's relation to themselves, to other living beings and their environment. In order to address the issue of the vulnerability of the human world and how to respond to its specific challenges, the contributions in this book discuss the topic from a broad range of perspectives, including anthropological, psychological, sociological, philosophical, and environmental.
Author(s): Elodie Boubill, Susi Ferrarello
Year: 2023
Language: English
Commentary: Vulnerability of the Human World,Well-being, Health, Technology and the Environmen
Pages: 388
Tags: Vulnerability of the Human World,Well-being, Health, Technology and the Environment
Contents
About the Contributors
Chapter 1: The Vulnerability of the Human World: Introduction
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Chapter 2: The Limits and Dangers of Risk-Benefit Analysis: From the Refugee Crisis to the Coronavirus Pandemic
2.1 Whose New Normal?
2.2 The Dangers of Risk-Benefit Calculations
2.3 Justice Between Ethics and Politics
2.4 The “Lessor of Evils”
2.5 Response Ethics
2.6 Covid: “The Great Equalizer”?
References
Chapter 3: From Blame Narrative to Just Narrative: A Hermeneutical Perspective on Pandemics
3.1 The Blame Narrative: Three Kinds of Vulnerability
3.2 Hermeneutics and Pandemics: Finding a Just Narrative
3.3 Pitfalls
3.3.1 Easy, Does It?
3.3.2 Behind Our Backs
3.3.3 Sticking to the Rules
3.4 Discussion and Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: The Ontological and Ethical Value of Vulnerability: A Reflection Between Phenomenology and Psychopathology
4.1 What Is Vulnerability? The Temporal and Bodily Structure of the Subject
4.2 Vulnerability as Liminality. Husserl and the Grenzprobleme
4.3 Jaspers and “The Infinite Abyss of Reality”
4.4 Taking Care of Vulnerability
4.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Why Does Mental Illness Exist? Reflections on Human Vulnerability
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Anthropological Vulnerability
5.2.1 Lack of Instinct and Openness of Development
5.2.2 Angst as “Dizziness of Freedom”
5.2.3 Eccentric Positionality
5.2.4 Subject and Object Body
5.3 Existential Vulnerability
5.4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Well-Being, Health, and Human Embodiment: The Familial Lifeworld
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Family as a Central Phenomenological Category
6.3 Human Well-Being and Intergenerational Altruism
6.4 Marriage, the Creation of a New Family, and Well-Being
6.5 Familial Well-Being and Child Rearing
6.6 Concluding Reflections on the Family and Its Authority
References
Chapter 7: The Dissolution of the Pregnant City: A Philosophical Account of Early Pregnancy Loss and Enigmatic Grief
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Scientific Accounts of Miscarriage: Thinking through the Definition, Etiology and Prevalence of Miscarriage
7.3 Grief, Relationality and Ambivalence: Rethinking Loss with Freud, Boss and Butler
7.4 The Dissolution of the Pregnant City: Miscarriage and Pre-individual Relationality
7.5 Concluding Notes
References
Chapter 8: K(in)Vulnerability: Indigenous and Anthropocene Perspectives on Kin and Vulnerability
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Land and Community
8.3 Pain and Suffering
8.4 Make Kin
8.5 Sitting with Rocks
8.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Vulnerability, Wellbeing and Health
9.1 Introduction
9.2 What Is Vulnerability?
9.3 Vulnerability: An Essential Aspect of Being Human
9.4 Situational Vulnerability: An Intersectional Approach
9.5 Ontological Resilience and Wellbeing
9.6 Situational Resilience and Wellbeing
9.7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Vulnerability, Interdependence and the Care for the Living
10.1 Introduction
10.2 From Self-Mastery to Exploitation: The Insular Autonomy
10.3 Plasticity and the Ecological Paradigm of Subjectivity
10.4 Vulnerability & Interdependence: A Phenomenological and Relational Paradigm for the Living World
10.5 Immunity and Responsiveness: A Critique of the Anthropocentric Perspective in Biology
10.6 From Responsiveness to Relational Dignity
10.7 What Makes Us Human? The Responsibility of the Living Person
References
Chapter 11: From Digital Medicine to Embodied Care
11.1 The Rise of Digital Medicine: A Challenge in the Name of Health?
11.2 The Neurocentric Paradigm
11.3 The Phenomenological Turn
11.4 Health as a Moral Enterprise
11.5 Embodied Care
References
Websites
Chapter 12: Aiming at Well-Being with Brain Implants: Any Risk of Implanting Unprecedented Vulnerabilities?
12.1 Introduction: When Well-Being Leads to Vulnerabilities
12.2 The Capability Approach: General Tenets
12.3 The Capability Approach and BCI Related Well-Being
12.4 Transformative Experience
12.5 Empowerment and Coping: Achieving the Desired State of Well-Being
12.6 The Missing Resources
12.7 Narrative Based Healthcare Services: The Enabling Factor
References
Chapter 13: Phenomenology of Emotions and Algorithms in Cases of Early Rehospitalizations
13.1 Introduction
13.2 The Disembodied Technology and Its Ethical Opacity
13.3 The Case
13.4 The Inherited Bias
13.5 What Can Phenomenology Do in This Case
13.6 Presuppositionless Phenomenology
13.7 Phenomenological Ethics
13.8 Phenomenological Methods in Psychology and Data Collecting
13.9 Conclusion
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