Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul (Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities)

This thought-provoking book explores the connections between health, ethics, and soul. It analyzes how and why the soul has been lost from scientific discourses, healthcare practices, and ethical discussions, presenting suggestions for change.

Arguing that the dominant scientific worldview has eradicated talk about the soul and presents an objective and technical approach to human life and its vulnerabilities, Ten Have and Pegoraro look to rediscover identity, humanity, and meaning in healthcare and bioethics. Taking a mulitidisciplinary approach, they investigate philosophical, scientific, historical, cultural, social, religious, economic, and environmental perspectives as they journey toward a new, global bioethics, emphasizing the role of the moral imagination.

Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul is an important read for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in bioethics and person-centred healthcare.

Henk ten Have is Professor Emeritus at the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA, and Research Professor at Anahuac University in Mexico.

Renzo Pegoraro is Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life in Rome and Professor of Bioethics at the Faculty of Theology of North-East of Italy.