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The Enigma of Health. The Art of Healing in a Scientific Age
AuthorHans-Georg Gadamer
Original titleÜber die Verborgenheit der Gesundheit
TranslatorJason Gaiger and Nicholas Walker
LanguageGerman
SubjectPhilosophy of medicine
Published1993
PublisherPolity Press
Publication placeGermany
Published in English1996
Media typePrint
ISBN9780804726924

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.

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.
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