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The Vulnerability of the Human World

Well-being, Health, Technology and the Environment

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Editors:
  1. Elodie Boublil

    1. Faculty of Health/Faculty of Humanities (LIS EA 4395), UPEC (PARIS XII), Créteil, France

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  2. Susi Ferrarello

    1. Department of Philosophy, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, USA

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  • Discusses human care from psychological, sociological, philosophical, and environmental perspectives
  • Critically examines of our ways of life to help define and understand well-being
  • Contains a holistic approach to well-being by investigating the qualitative and relational aspect of being in the world

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 148)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Vulnerability of the Human World: Introduction

    • Elodie Boublil, Susi Ferrarello
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Limits and Dangers of Risk-Benefit Analysis: From the Refugee Crisis to the Coronavirus Pandemic

    • Kelly Oliver
    Pages 13-27

  4. From Blame Narrative to Just Narrative: A Hermeneutical Perspective on Pandemics

    • Geoffrey Dierckxsens
    Pages 29-42

  5. The Ontological and Ethical Value of Vulnerability: A Reflection Between Phenomenology and Psychopathology

    • Valeria Bizzari
    Pages 43-55

  6. Why Does Mental Illness Exist? Reflections on Human Vulnerability

    • Thomas Fuchs
    Pages 57-71

  7. Well-Being, Health, and Human Embodiment: The Familial Lifeworld

    • Mark J. Cherry
    Pages 73-89

  8. The Dissolution of the Pregnant City: A Philosophical Account of Early Pregnancy Loss and Enigmatic Grief

    • Marjolein Oele
    Pages 91-110

  9. K(in)Vulnerability: Indigenous and Anthropocene Perspectives on Kin and Vulnerability

    • Gerard Kuperus
    Pages 111-122

  10. Vulnerability, Wellbeing and Health

    • Roxana Baiasu
    Pages 123-141

  11. Vulnerability, Interdependence and the Care for the Living

    • Elodie Boublil
    Pages 143-157

  12. From Digital Medicine to Embodied Care

    • Francesca Brencio
    Pages 159-179

  13. Aiming at Well-Being with Brain Implants: Any Risk of Implanting Unprecedented Vulnerabilities?

    • Tomislav Furlanis, Frederic Gilbert
    Pages 181-197

  14. Phenomenology of Emotions and Algorithms in Cases of Early Rehospitalizations

    • Susi Ferrarello
    Pages 199-210
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About this book

This book contains the most recent papers problematizing the notions of health, vulnerability, and well-being for individuals and their environment. Organized in 5 sections the book takes into consideration the critical and phenomenological history of well-being and health, their technological manipulation, how these notions connect with the body and the specific vulnerability of the human being, and what responsible direction we can take to improve people's relation to themselves, to other living beings and their environment. In order to address the issue of the vulnerability of the human world and how to respond to its specific challenges, the contributions in this book discuss the topic from a broad range of perspectives, including anthropological, psychological, sociological, philosophical, and environmental.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Health/Faculty of Humanities (LIS EA 4395), UPEC (PARIS XII), Créteil, France

    Elodie Boublil

  • Department of Philosophy, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, USA

    Susi Ferrarello

About the editors

Elodie Boublil has a PhD in philosophy from McGill University, a MA in philosophy from Sorbonne University (Paris I) and a MA in political science and international relations from Sciences Po Paris. After her PhD, she received a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission (CNRS, 2015–2017) and the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (University of Cologne, 2018-2020). She is now Associate Professor at the University of Paris XII (UPEC), she has published books and papers on phenomenology, ethics, philosophy of health, vulnerability and empathy.


Susi Ferrarello, has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne in Paris, a master in Human Rights and Political Science from the University of Bologna. She has held professorships at Loyola University (Chicago), Switzerland, Sapienza University, and the Florence University of the Arts. Currently, she is an associate professor at California State University, East Bay. She writes for Psychology Today. Among her publications the most recent ‘the Ethics of Love’ (routledge, 2023), ‘the Origin of Bioethics and Human Emotions’ (Routledge 2022), Husserl’s ethics and practical intentionality (Bloomsbury 2015)


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Vulnerability of the Human World

  • Book Subtitle: Well-being, Health, Technology and the Environment

  • Editors: Elodie Boublil, Susi Ferrarello

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41824-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41823-5Published: 22 October 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41826-6Due: 22 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41824-2Published: 21 October 2023

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 210

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Environmental Health, Social Sciences, general

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