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The Enigma of Health. The Art of Healing in a Scientific Age
Author Hans-Georg Gadamer
Original titleÜber die Verborgenheit der Gesundheit
Translator Jason Gaiger and Nicholas Walker
LanguageGerman
Subject Philosophy of medicine
Published1993
Publisher Polity Press
Publication placeGermany
Published in English
1996
Media typePrint
ISBN 9780804726924

The Enigma of Health: The Art of Healing in a Scientific Age ( German: Über die Verborgenheit der Gesundheit) is a 1993 book about the philosophy of medicine by Hans-Georg Gadamer, in which the author examines the key components of medical practice such as death, life, anxiety, freedom, health and the relationship between the body and the soul based on the phenomenological framework developed by Martin Heidegger in Being and Time. [1] [2]

References

  1. ^ Malpas, Jeff; Gander, Hans-Helmuth (2014). The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics. Routledge. p. 556. ISBN  9781317676645.
  2. ^ Doyon, Stéphane (1997). "GADAMER, Hans-Georg, The Enigma of Health. The Art of Healing in a Scientific Age". Laval Théologique et Philosophique. 53 (1): 226–229. doi: 10.7202/401056ar. Retrieved 12 December 2017.