The Vulnerability of the Human World

Part 1. Critical history and critical phenomenology of Health and Well-being.- Chapter 1. Global Health and the Collateral Damage Utilitarianism (Kelly Oliver).- Chapter 2. Why does mental illness exist? Considerations on anthropological vulnerability (Thomas Fuchs).- Part 2. Well-Being, Health and Embodiment.- Chapter 3.The Ontological and Ethical Value of Vulnerability (Valeria Bizzari).- Chapter 4. Well-Being, Health, and Human Embodiment: The Familial Lifeworld (Mark J. Cherry).- Part 3. Well-Being, Health and the Environment.- Chapter 5.Being and Aging: A Phenomenology of Time, Place and Illness (Marjolein Oele).- Chapter 6.Vulnerability, Mutual Aid, Empathy (Gerard Kuperus).- Part 4. The Vulnerability of the Human World and Responsibility.- Chapter 7.Pandemic Discrimination and Responsibility for Culturally Vulnerable Groups. A Phenomenological and Bioethical Perspective (Geoffrey Dierckxsens).- Chapter 8. Interdependency, responsibility and the care for the living (Elodie Boublil).- Part 5. The vulnerability of the human world. Health, technology and the environment.- Chapter 9. From digital medicine to embodied care (Francesca Brencio).- Chapter 10. Aiming at Well-Being with Brain Implants: Any risk of Implanting Unprecedented Vulnerabilities? (Frederic Gilbert).- Chapter 11. Phenomenology of algorithms and emotions in cases of early re-hospitalization (Susi Ferrarello).- Chapter 12. Conclusion.

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)