This book offers a unique description of how phenomenology can help professionals from medical, environmental and social fields to explore notions such as interaffectivity, empathy, epoche, reduction, and intersubjective encounter. Written by a group of top scholars, it uniquely covers the relationship between phenomenology and bioethics, and focuses not only on medical cases, but also on the environment and emerging technologies. This variety of themes, whilst including techno-ethics, environmental ethics, animal ethics, and medical ethics, is conducive to appreciating broadly how phenomenology can improve our quality of our life. Despite its difficult themes, the book appeals to an audience of both academics and professionals who are willing to understand how to increase the quality of care in their professional field.

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Susi Ferrarello has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne in Paris, a M.A. in Human Rights and Political Science from the University of Bologna, and a Bachelor in Philosophy from La Sapienza University in Rome. She has held professorships at Loyola University (Chicago), Sapienza University and the Florence University of the Arts. Currently, she teaches at the California State University (East Bay), University of San Francisco, California Institute for Integral Studies, and Saybrook University. She writes for psychology today. Among her publications, there are novels, poetry, and philosophy academic books such as the recent the Role of bioethics in emotional problems (Routledge, 2021), Human Emotions and the origins of Bioethics (Routledge, 2020), Ethics of Lived Experience, Bloomsbury, 2018, Husserl's Ethics and Practical Intentionality, (Bloomsbury, 2015), Phenomenology of Sex, Love, and Intimacy (Routledge 2018).

Chapter 1. Bioethics, the Ontology of Life, and the Hermeneutics of Biology (Jack Owen Griffiths).- Chapter 2. Phenomenology and Medical Devices (Pat McConville).- Chapter 3. Phenomenology of Illness, Resilience and Well-being: A Contribution to Person-Centred Approaches in Healthcare (Roxana Baiasu).- Chapter 4. Integrative Bioethics as the Phenomenology of Life (Luka Janes¿).- Chapter 5. Compassion Fatigue: Assessing the Psychological and Moral Boundaries of Empathy (Elodie Boublil).- Chapter 6. Phenomenology Applied to Animal Health and Suffering (Walter Veit).- Chapter 7. The Transcendental Quality of Digital Health and Social Media (Susi Ferrarello).- Chapter 8. Painful Experience and Constitution of the Intersubjective Self: A Critical-Phenomenological Analysis (Jessica Stanier).- Chapter 9. How to Understand Feelings of Vitality: An Approach to Their Nature, Varieties, and Functions (I¿ngrid Vendrell Ferran).- Chapter 10. Resuscitating Embodied Presence in Healthcare: The Encounter with le Visage in Levinas (Michael C. Brannigan).