
Fredrik Svenaeus
Professor
I am a philosopher and professor at Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge. My main research areas are philosophy of medicine and medical humanities.
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Fredrik Svenaeus is professor at the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge, Södertörn University, Sweden. His main research areas are philosophy of medicine, bioethics, medical humanities, and philosophical anthropology.
He has published a large number of articles and books on various subjects within these fields, most often from a phenomenological point of view, some recent examples are:
“Why Heideggerian Death Anxiety is not Truly Uncanny: Existential Feelings and Psychiatric Disorders", Discipline Filosofiche, vol. 28,no. 2, 43-59, 2018.
“A Defence of the Phenomenological Account of Health and Illness”, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 44, no. 4, 459-478, 2019.
“To Die Well: The Phenomenology of Suffering and End of Life Ethics”, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, vol. 23, no. 3, 335-342, 2020.
“Phenomenology and Embryo Ethics”, Topos: Journal for Philosophy and Cultural Studies, no. 2, 11-26, 2020.
“The Phenomenology of Objectification in and Through Medical Practice and Technology Development”, accepted for publication in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2021.
“Empathy and Togetherness Online Compared to IRL: A Phenomenological Account”, accepted for publication in Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 2021.
“Health and Illness as Enacted Phenomena”, accepted for publication in Topoi, 2021.
For download of papers, see personal page at: www.academia.edu.