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Philosophy of Care

New Approaches to Vulnerability, Otherness and Therapy

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  • Provides a multidisciplinary and historical-philosophical study on the various extensions of the concepts of "care" and "care practices"
  • Increases the thematic fields of the philosophy of care and ethics of care
  • Contributes to the philosophical enlargement of the semantics of care

Part of the book series: Advancing Global Bioethics (AGBIO, volume 16)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Care and Vulnerability

  2. Care and Economy

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About this book

In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum discuss the issue of care. The book covers both philosophical and therapeutic studies and contains a three-pronged approach to discussing the concepts of care: vulnerability, otherness, and therapy. Above all, it is a matter of combining, in a plural form, a path with multiple theoretical and conceptual bifurcations, but which always point to an observation of society from the perspective of human vulnerability.


 



 

Reviews

“As a palliative care physician, with dual expertise and interest in clinical ethics and bioethics, I found this book a breath of fresh air … . Editors Joaquim Braga and Mário Santiago de Carvalho have brought together a diverse and insightful group of thinkers and writers, and curated an excellent contribution to the theoretical discourse on care as it relates to our work and our world.” (Linda Sheahan, IAHPC Book Reviews, hospicecare.com, Vol. 23 (11), November, 2022)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Departamento de Filosofia, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Joaquim Braga

  • Departamento de Filosofia, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, COIMBRA, Portugal

    Mário Santiago de Carvalho

About the editors

Joaquim Braga is researcher and professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Coimbra. He is also a member of the Research Unit “Institute for Philosophical Studies”. His graduation in Philosophy took place at the Faculty of Letter of the University of Coimbra. In 2010, at the Humboldt University of Berlin, he finished his PhD with a thesis based upon the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer. Currently, his research activity covers the fields of Picture Theory, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Culture and Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, with a special interest in symbolic thought. Inter alia, his works include Die symbolische Prägnanz des Bildes. Zu einer Kritik des Bildbegriffs nach der Philosophie Ernst Cassirers (Freiburg, 2012), Rethinking Culture and Cultural Analysis – Neudenken von Kultur und Kulturanalyse (Berlin, 2013), Leituras da Sociedade Moderna. Media, Política, Sentido (Coimbra, 2013), Símbolo e Cultura (Coimbra, 2014), Bernard de Mandeville’s Tropology of Paradoxes: Morals, Politics, Economics, and Therapy (Springer, 2015), Antropologia da Individuação. Estudos sobre o Pensamento de Ernst Cassirer (Porto Alegre, 2017), Conceiving Virtuality: From Art to Technology (Springer, 2019), Sensibilidade e matéria no pensamento de Denis Diderot (Coimbra, 2020), Michel Foucault e os Discursos do Corpo (Campinas, 2020), Teoria das Formas Imagéticas. Ensaios sobre Arte, Estética, Tecnologia (Coimbra, 2020).

Mário Santiago de Carvalho is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra and Scientific Coordinator of the R&D Unit, Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos (IEF). Author of several books and papers related to his main philosophical fields of research – Portuguese Aristotelianism, Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics and Philosophy ofMusic – he has taught at other Universities, in Portugal and abroad, has translated Greek and Latin philosophical texts, and is currently supervising the bilingual edition of the Commentarii Collegii Conimbricensis Societatis Iesu.  

 

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophy of Care

  • Book Subtitle: New Approaches to Vulnerability, Otherness and Therapy

  • Editors: Joaquim Braga, Mário Santiago de Carvalho

  • Series Title: Advancing Global Bioethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75478-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71240-2Published: 10 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75137-1Published: 16 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75478-5Published: 09 December 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2212-652X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2212-6538

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 366

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Nursing Ethics, Health Care Management

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