Philosophy of Health Sciences

This course aims at an advanced understanding of philosophy of health sciences for researchers by examining the epistemic and ethical conditions of caring for the health of another. The course proceeds from the practice of dialogue as the ultimate foundation of caregiver and caretaker alike (whether patient or relative), namely a conversation through which the story co-authored by caretaker and caregiver becomes the basis for health care, and thus also a fundamental condition for the empirical fields the researcher in health sciences and medicine meets. Even the most remote statistical, experimental or laboratory research is intelligible only on the assumption that it ultimately refers to a mutual understanding of healthcare between a caregiver and a caretaker. The course probes the researcher into some of the dialogical conditions of mutually, openly and respectfully listening and talking towards greater understanding of healthcare in particular cases.

How people tell the story of needed…