In medicine the understanding and interpretation of the complex  reality of illness currently refers either to an organismic approach  that focuses on the physical or to a 'holistic' approach that takes  into account the patient's human sociocultural involvement. Yet as the  papers of this collection show, the suffering human person refers  ultimately to his/her existential sphere. Hence, praxis is  supplemented by still other perspectives for valuation and  interpretation: ethical, spiritual, and religious.     Can medicine ignore these considerations or push them to the side as  being subjective and arbitrary? Phenomenology/philosophy-of-life  recognizes all of the above approaches to be essential facets of the  Human Condition (Tymieniecka). This approach holds that all the facets  of the Human Condition have equal objectivity and legitimacy. It  completes the accepted medical outlook and points the way toward a new  `medical humanism'.

Life – Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition: Medicine and Philosophy in a Dialogue (Analecta Husserliana) PDF

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