Table of contents

Acknowledgements

The human condition as a system of reference for the medical interpretation of illness

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Evandro Agazzi

9-13

Illness as lived experience and as the object of medicine

Evandro Agazzi

3-15

Illness, life and the human condition

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

15-21

The construction of illness

A context problem

Carlos Viesca

17-32

Defining disease

Much ado about nothing?

Jennifer Worrall, John Worrall

33-55

Critique of Freud’s notion of mental illness

Adolf Grünbaum

57-70

Cancer from the medical and existential points of view

Mario Fiorentino

71-79

The experience of illness and the meaning of death

Massimo Reichlin

81-95

Application or interpretation?

Paolo Cattorini

99-115

Medicine as a practice and the ethics of illness

Roberto Mordacci

117-131

Sense or nonsense of illness in ethics of the body

Peter Kemp

133-146

The loss of the sense of illness

Euthanasia and the right to die

Rosangela Barcaro

147-152

Is it possible to give sense to illness?

Jean Ladrière

153-179

Towards a new approach to medical humanism

Leon Cassiers

181-192

The meaning of suffering in buddhism and Christianity

Hervé Barreau

195-201

The Christian interpretation of suffering

Wolfhart Pannenberg

203-211

La maladie dans la tradition juive

Menahem Macina

213-233

La souffrance de Job

Jean-Marie Van Cangh

235-248

Le sens de la maladie

Une perspective spirituelle chrétienne

Enzo Bianchi

249-262

La signification des miracles de Jésus

Joseph Doré

263-278

Index of names