

Author: Tyreman Stephen
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 1386-7423
Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Vol.14, Iss.3, 2011-08, pp. : 301-311
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Abstract
In recent years limitations in the biomedical conceptualisation of health and illness have been well documented and a variety of alternative explanations produced to replace or supplement it. One such is Fredrik Svenaeus's philosophy of medical practice, which is a development of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Martin Heideggers' phenomenological and hermeneutical writings. This paper explores two texts, a short story by H. G. Wells,
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