Medical Technologies: The Question of Intentionality
Abstract
I consider modifications of the patient-physician relationship in terms of phenomenology of technology. Using Don Ihde’s phenomenological human-technology-world scheme I discuss the phenomenon of growing number of technological mediators between a patient and a physician from two projections: 1) as a care - from the projection of an intentional act; and 2) as a responsibility - from the projection of an intentional object. I show that technological processes and effects of care and responsibility in medical practices are tightly connected with the historical dynamics of the phenomena of subjectivity and intentionality.
About the Author
Olga Stoliarova
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Stoliarova O. Medical Technologies: The Question of Intentionality. Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences. 2015;(11):94-106. (In Russ.)
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