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01-12-2019 | Editorial

Disenchantment and clinical ethics

Authors: Henk ten Have, Bert Gordijn

Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy | Issue 4/2019

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In the last century, sociologist Max Weber formulated his famous thesis of the “disenchantment of the world” (Weber 1958, p. 133). With the expansion of modernity, traditional agricultural societies have been replaced by alternative economic and social arrangements. This new social order has encouraged the emergence of a novel type of human being. The historical process studied by Weber has produced an understanding of the world and all areas of human experience that is less mysterious and magical. The world has become knowable and predictable by humans (Weber 1958). …

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Title: Disenchantment and clinical ethics
Authors: Henk ten Have
Bert Gordijn
Publication date: 01-12-2019
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 1386-7423
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8633
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-019-09925-3

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