Heart and Soul

The lead article in this January-February 2021 issue—the first of the Hastings Center Report's fiftieth year of publication—does not set out to change medicine. It tries instead to understand it. In “A Heart without Life: Artificial Organs and the Lived Body,” Mary Jean Walker draws on work in...

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Main Author: Kaebnick, Gregory E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2021
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 2
Further subjects:B Covid-19
B body-self
B democratic deliberation
B AHD
B clinical ethics
B artificial heart devices
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Summary:The lead article in this January-February 2021 issue—the first of the Hastings Center Report's fiftieth year of publication—does not set out to change medicine. It tries instead to understand it. In “A Heart without Life: Artificial Organs and the Lived Body,” Mary Jean Walker draws on work in phenomenology and on empirical research with people who have received artificial heart devices to argue that such devices may have two very different effects on how a patient experiences the body and the self. Several other pieces in this issue address the ongoing slew of patient care and health policy problems surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, and a special report titled Democracy in Crisis: Civic Learning and the Reconstruction of Common Purpose considers the requirements for public involvement in policy-making about bioethical issues.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contains:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1002/hast.1209