Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul

This thought-provoking book explores the connections between health, ethics, and soul. It analyzes how and why the soul has been lost from scientific discourses, healthcare practices, and ethical discussions, presenting suggestions for change.
Arguing that the dominant scientific worldview has eradicated talk about the soul and presents an objective and technical approach to human life and its vulnerabilities, Ten Have and Pegoraro look to rediscover identity, humanity, and meaning in healthcare and bioethics. Taking a mulitidisciplinary approach, they investigate philosophical, scientific, historical, cultural, social, religious, economic, and environmental perspectives as they journey toward a new, global bioethics, emphasizing the role of the moral imagination.
Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul is an important read for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in bioethics and person-centred healthcare.

Henk ten Have has been Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA (2010-2019). He studied medicine and philosophy in the Netherlands and worked as professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the Universities of Maastricht and Nijmegen. From 2003 until 2010 he has joined UNESCO in Paris as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology. Since 2019 he is Emeritus Professor, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA, and since 2021 Research professor at the Faculty of Bioethics in the Universidad Anahuac Mexico. He is editor of the International Journal of Ethics Education, and Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. His recent book publications are Global Bioethics; An Introduction (2016), Vulnerability: Challenging bioethics (2016), Global education in bioethics (2018), Wounded planet. How declining biodiversity endangers health and how bioethics can help (2019), Dictionary of global bioethics (with Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, 2021), Bioethics, healthcare and the soul (with Renzo Pegoraro, 2022), Bizarre Bioethics - Ghosts, monsters and pilgrims (2022), The Covid-19 pandemic and global bioethics (2022). He has edited the Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (2016) and Global education in bioethics (2018).

1.Introduction: The Soul in Healthcare and Ethics  2.The Erasure of the Soul  3.The Disenchantment of the World  4.The Lost Soul: Images without Soul  5.Moral Imagination  6.Recovering the Soul: Inspiring Images  7.Another Bioethics