This book contains the most recent papers problematizing the notions of health, vulnerability, and well-being for individuals and their environment. Organized in 5 sections the book takes into consideration the critical and phenomenological history of well-being and health, their technological manipulation, how these notions connect with the body and the specific vulnerability of the human being, and what responsible direction we can take to improve people's relation to themselves, to other living beings and their environment. In order to address the issue of the...

This open access book is an integrated historical and philosophical investigation of several problematic situations that emerge from diverse areas of medical practice. These include (but are not limited to):

• Paying less attention to patients who are suffering with symptoms because no identifiable pathological lesion or pathophysiological process can be found.


• Paying too much attention to patients who are not suffering with symptoms because pathological lesions or pathophysiological processes have been found.


• The tendency to understand patients at risk of...