Description
Book SynopsisSacred Science is an analysis of post-war discourses concerning health and illness. These discourses are an attempt to grasp the meaning of health in our modern human condition, and as such they provide both new insights into the genealogy of conceptualizations of both health and illness, but also serve as a viable hermeneutic summary of many important textual moments in the recent history of health studies, including Foucault, Gadamer, Illich, Sontag, and others. This book is the result of a phenomenological disquisition of the ideas employed by health scholars and philosophers, and its import rests both on its uniqueness in the relevant fields and its new ideas, including indefinitude', deontic facticity', and illness as the experience of the simultaneous inexistence' of both life and death.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Séance of Science – Opening Up the Corpuscular Corpus – Metaphoric Metastases – Detrimental Health – ‘Doctor, Feel Thyself’: The Aura of the Alternative – Conclusion: Sacred Ritual, Profane Miracle.
