Phenomenology applied to animal health and suffering
Phenomenology applied to animal health and suffering
What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to be sick? These two questions are much closer to one another than has hitherto been acknowledged. Indeed, both raise a number of related, albeit very complex, philosophical problems. In recent years, the phenomenology of health and disease has become a major topic in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine, owing much to the work of Havi Carel (2007, 2011, 2018). Surprisingly little attention, however, has been given to the phenomenology of animal health and suffering. This omission shall be remedied here, laying the groundwork for the phenomenological evaluation of animal health and suffering.
Animals, Consciousness, Disease, Health, Phenomenology, Sentience
73-88
Veit, Walter
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Browning, Heather
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6 March 2021
Veit, Walter
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Browning, Heather
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Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather
(2021)
Phenomenology applied to animal health and suffering.
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International Library of Bioethics.
(International Library of Bioethics, 84)
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What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to be sick? These two questions are much closer to one another than has hitherto been acknowledged. Indeed, both raise a number of related, albeit very complex, philosophical problems. In recent years, the phenomenology of health and disease has become a major topic in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine, owing much to the work of Havi Carel (2007, 2011, 2018). Surprisingly little attention, however, has been given to the phenomenology of animal health and suffering. This omission shall be remedied here, laying the groundwork for the phenomenological evaluation of animal health and suffering.
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Animals, Consciousness, Disease, Health, Phenomenology, Sentience
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